Chapter 4 - THE WIFE WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Sarah hadn't discovered the missing money by accident.
Four months earlier, she'd been helping prepare documents for the annual Moretti Foundation gala.
She noticed a payment that didn't match the event budget.
Then another.
And another.
At first, she assumed it was an accounting error.
But the transfers led to companies she'd never heard of.
Companies connected to Valyria Ki.
Marco Moretti.
And Alessandro's uncle Aldo.
Sarah had spent eleven years managing the mansion's household accounts and charitable events.
People assumed she understood nothing about business.
They were wrong.
Before marrying Alessandro, she'd studied accounting.
She'd worked for her father's investment firm.
She understood balance sheets.
And she knew how to recognize money disappearing behind carefully arranged paperwork.
When she confronted the family accountant, he became nervous.
Two days later, he resigned.
A week after that, Sarah received an anonymous warning.
Stop looking.
She didn't.
Instead, she called Daniel Mercer.
Together, they began documenting the transfers.
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And what they discovered frightened her more than Alessandro's affair.
Someone was preparing to steal the Moretti empire from inside the family.
