Chapter 520
Shane thought he could easily back her into a corner.
“Expose me then, Mr. Porter. Someone already beat you to the punch,” Mara scoffed. “My life is already completely ruined. What do I have left to lose p>
With that, she hung up. Without any real leverage, all Shane could do was glare furiously at his silent phone.
Mara stood in the hallway, glancing greedily toward the locked room where Adrian had stashed the duffel bags of cash. Hmph. Instead of tipping off Shane for pennies, she’d be much better off finding a way to get her own hands on that fortune.
In his car, Shane ground his teeth, entirely out of options.
“Allen, go notify the liquidation committee for the Mercer Group. Tell them it looks like Adrian just received a massive influx of hidden funds p>
Selling a lucrative business meant serious money had to change hands. In Mavaria, the personal bank accounts of a bankrupt company’s legal representatives were heavily monitored for a mandated probationary period.
“Yes, Boss p>
But shortly after, the feedback came in: There had been absolutely no large deposits in any of Adrian’s known accounts recently.
“Nothing? How is that possible?” Shane didn’t believe it for a second.
Where did the money from selling the pharmacy go? Did they intentionally delay the payment? Impossible. If the payment was delayed, a paranoid man like Adrian would never have handed over the business so willingly, especially when he desperately needed cash to survive.
“Boss, is it possible they bypassed the banks entirely and did a cash transaction?” Allen suggested.
“Of course! A cash transaction! Why didn’t I think of that?” But a pharmacy of that size would sell for at least a few million dollars. Moving that kind of physical currency was a massive logistical headache.
“Allen, do you think all that cash is hiding inside the Mercer estate p>
“It’s highly likely. Adrian wouldn’t trust keeping that much money anywhere else right now p>
If millions in cash were sitting inside that house, a greedy opportunist like Mara would definitely be eyeing it.
Shane’s eyes gleamed with predatory calculation. He immediately instructed Allen. “Have someone keep a close eye on Mara p>
“Understood, Boss. Also, there’s another critical update from the South-Eastern Corridor. Right around the time formari arrived at the border someone posed as our men and leaked the rumor that he was fleeing with a massive fortune. That’s why his surviving family hates us so much p>
Shane slammed his fist against the leather car seat in a blind rage. “Who the hell is doing this p>
They clearly wanted Norman dead
and purposefully pinned the hit on Porter Entertainment. While Norman’s family posed no real threat to a billionaire, and Norman himself was already in the ground, making new enemies out of thin air made Shane feel like he had Swallowed broken glass. The worst part was, he couldn’t even explain himself without looking incredibly guilty.
At this moment, Shane had absolutely no idea that the very people he was underestimating would soon become a fatal threat to his empire.
“Could it be Adrian pulling the strings?” Allen asked.
“Adrian hates Norman the most out of anyone, but looking at his current pathetic state, he doesn’t have the resources or the network to pull this off. There are only two people capable of executing a stunt like this so flawlessly p>
“You mean Allen looked at Shane through the rearview mirror.
“Ethan and Mira p>
“Logically, those two shouldn’t hate Norman as much as Adrian does.” Allen still felt
the two Mercer siblings lacked that level of ruthless, bloody calculation.
“Don’t underestimate their grudge. Norman had a hand in plenty of the Mercer family’s internal betrayals. And they are the only ones with the raw power and intelligence to pull strings like this. Keep your guard up against them from now on
“Understood, Boss p>
“Dad, our stock prices dropped again today,” Roxanne informed Shane the moment
he walked through the front door of their mansion.
“So what? We’ve been aggressively expanding lately and haven’t paid much
attention to the day-to-day trading. A slight dip is completely normal p>
But it wasn’t a normal market correction. It was the lethal trap Mira had carefully laid
out to ruthlessly snipe Porter Entertainment.
The father and daughter had been so fixated on carving up the Mercer assets and handling petty side issues that they remained completely oblivious to the devastating financial siege closing in on them.