Chapter 243
Alex’s POV Alex’s Office – a few moments later
I was still in my office behind the closed door.
The words were ringing in my ears:
The vault is empty.
I couldn’t believe what I heard.
They found the vault.
It’s empty.
The River vault was moved to the Rollings House after the River daughter became pregnant.
Jonathan was the child.
Now he is the legal heir and the admin so he holds rights to the River vault.
And the Blue Heart.
Now my men are saying the vault is empty.
I tried to figure multiple ways but I couldn’t figure out…how could a vault full of immense wealth be…empty.
It wasn’t long before my disbelief turned into irritation.
Tonight, should have been the night the Blue Heart should have been in my hand.
So where did what go wrong?
I activated plan b after plan a failed.
Plan A was to get the Blue Heart from Veronica.
Failed.
It didn’t belong to her and is safe with Jonathan.
Plan B was to get the Blue Heart from the vault.
Failed.
The vault is empty.
I knew or believed the Blue Heart had to be in the vault after Jonathan became heir to the Rollings House. After all, now his valuables and assets will be there.
I waited for the right time.
Yesterday night Jonathan was with his family at a long night party.
Uptil now…everything was perfectly arranged.
I knew the vault was in the Rollings House.
And yesterday night I was waiting for that one moment I had been dreaming for years.
My frustration deepened as the plan failed, but my information couldn’t have.
“So what exactly changed p>
I remember questioning my men multiple times when they said the vault was empty.
I told them to check again.
Every safe drawer, every hidden section.
The answer that came was clear.
The vault was a big empty room with only walls.
There was absolutely nothing in the vault except a big empty room size vault.
The location was correct…his men found the vault.
Yet it was empty.
“Did someone empty it?
I recalled Jonathan was the only and first to enter the Rollings House ever since the River family passed away.
“Did someone empty the vault before Jonathan came p>
“If so…he would have reported it to the council…he didn’t p>
The Blue Heart was bought by Jonathan and was kept at his apartment.
Later he moved it.
After he moved to the Rollings House, my assumption was he must have moved it to the vault.
He didn’t.
My focus was now fixed on one person:
Jonathan.
I wondered if he knew the vault is empty?
Or did he find out someone was after the Blue Heart or the assets p>
Maybe he really did move everything out.
One question hanging over me was p>
Could he actually move assets of the old houses at will?
He came out as the River heir.
He became the River heir.
But it’s only been two-three months since he moved in the house.
It hasn’t been so long.
Impossible for him to check every asset in such a short time.
Now the vault is empty.
I knew the vault had the River assets, Rollings assets and that of the other old houses.
The assets of the old houses involved family records, ownership deeds, property deeds, valuables, gold bars, historical gemstones.
Then my mind began aligning the timeline.
Officially Jonathan became the legal heir only yesterday.
And that made a whole lot of difference.
Until yesterday, Jonathan may have moved into the Rollings House, but legally he could not access the vault as it was off limits for him.
After all he was yet to be recognized as the River heir.
So, unless legal heir, he cannot touch anything inside of the vault until today.
I leaned back into my chair and exhaled.
Confusion was replaced by fury.
“It’s impossible for him to move all of the assets p>
Jonathan gets the legal rights to the River vault.
And p>
It’s empty.
Generations of assets of hundreds of old houses.
All of them just cannot be put in a box and moved out.
Had he moved the stuff out, it would have been noticed.
The press would have been crawling all over.
Something is there that doesn’t make sense.
If Jonathan cannot move the assets as he didn’t have the rights, and he just got the rights yesterday.
He could not have moved the assets in one day.
Another question popped in my mind.
Did he have a list of the assets in the vault?
The biggest fact was…he became the legal heir only yesterday.
One day, one night is not enough to evacuate the vault clean.
Legally, shifting the assets is impossible.
Illegally, everything is possible.
But Jonathan would not use the illegal way.
“Then could someone else have moved the assets p>
“Could that person be in contact with Jonathan p>
Or maybe the assets were moved even before Jonathan became the heir.
Maybe the River heir having the assets was only a mirage.
But for me the main fact was I still didn’t get the Blue Heart.
For some odd reasons, I felt this as a personal attack on me.
I glanced at the report my team just sent in.
A line got my attention:
Boss is it possible someone got here before us?
I looked at the line again.
There was no other possibility behind all this.
Someone must have been there before Jonathan moved in.
Who?
If it was only about the Blue Heart, it would have made sense.
He bought it, it became his.
But the River assets?
The Rolling’s assets?
The old house’s assets?
How could the old house assets be moved or secured to another place without the old house heir’s not knowing about this?
Jonathan definitely didn’t have the rights until yesterday.
Then who did?
My expression hardened as a new thought came to my mind.
My anger turned into alarm.
I stared at the empty vault line before me
“The assets were moved before Jonathan became the legal heir p>
“Who and does the council and River representative know about the empty vault p>