My Six-Year-Old Daughter Knocked the Tea From My Hand and Pointed at My Wife—Then the Spill Started Foaming on the Marble
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Chapter 17 - Adrian’s Deal
Adrian initially presented it as temporary collateral.
At least according to messages.
One painting moved.
Pledged privately.
Cash generated.
Nora planned to redeem it later.
Then the investment loss deepened.
The first work could not be recovered easily.
So they substituted a replica to hide the absence.
Then another work financed the first problem.
Then another.
The mechanism grew.
By the time Lily knocked away my tea, investigators eventually estimated that original works worth more than twenty million dollars had been removed or encumbered.
Some could be recovered.
Some not immediately.
It had started as:
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temporary.
Most destructive schemes seem to love that word.
