Chapter 5 - The Masterstroke
The next morning at 9:30 AM, I sat in Phoebe Vance’s office. Spread across her mahogany conference table were not standard property release forms, but a dense stack of heavily annotated legal documents: a federal and state wire fraud complaint, an emergency injunction freezing Apex Venture Solutions LLC’s corporate assets, a motion for immediate arrest and investigation of forgery and notary fraud, and a revised property eviction notice ordering Julian and Chloe off my premises within two hours.
“Are you completely sure about this sequence, Clara?” Phoebe asked, holding her pen poised over the signature line. “Once we file this packet with the Travis County District Court and the financial crimes unit, there’s no turning back. It goes straight to the state prosecutor.”
“I’m entirely sure,” I said, signing my name in crisp, bold ink across every single designated line. “Julian wanted a clean break. I’m going to give him a permanent one.”
Phoebe slid the final papers into a thick leather portfolio. “I’ve got two plainclothes county sheriff deputies stationed in an unmarked car two houses down from yours. The moment I give them the green light after your signature meeting, they’ll execute the freeze and the eviction simultaneously.”
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I checked my watch. It was 9:55 AM.
“Let’s go home,” I said.
