Chapter 0615

Magnus returned to the living room, finding Maximus still seated, his face buried in his hands. His fingers massaged his scalp as if trying to stave off the onslaught of emotions and thoughts swirling in his head. Coming to the house of the man who claimed to be his father had only left him more frustrated, saddened, and in pain. He couldn’t stop imagining the unimaginable suffering his mother had endured–or perhaps he could, and that was what tormented him most. The memory of his actions with Mary surfaced, filling him with guilt and a sense of suffocation.

“Maximus… Here’s what your brother left for you,” Magnus said, holding out a thick envelope stuffed with papers and a USB drive. “If you want, you can open the files in my study. I have a laptop there.”

“What’s this?” Maximus asked, rubbing his temples, his brow furrowed in frustration.

“As I said… it’s the life’s work and legacy of Leonardo Palmer and Frank Levett.”

“Do you have any whisky? I need something stronger than coffee.”

“Yes… Let’s head to the study. I keep some there.”

The two men walked through the elegant halls of Magnus’s home.

“There’s the computer,” Magnus said, gesturing toward a sleek laptop on a desk. “I’ll pour you a whisky now. On

a desk. “I’ll the rocks or neat?”

“Neat,” Maximus replied, already opening the folder and spreading its contents across the desk.

bearing Leonardo Palmer’s signature. Maximus’s eyes widened as he realized many of the documents

He’s been looting the company again”

more here than you might imagine,” Magnus

the USB?”

“See for yourself.”

data was damning–solid proof that Peter

return the shares to Marcus and Mary?

Albert Preston. That softened her heart. That’s why your father orchestrated her death. Leonardo never

I could put my

old. Do you think prison is

the Palmer name would hurt more

shows fraud against Palmer Group, drug trafficking, organ trafficking,

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weren’t the criminals everyone believed.

in Frank Bartz’s hands. If Peter Bartz had passed his legacy to Lawrence Bartz–Marcus’s father–the family

survivor–Marcus. She thought she’d destroyed all evidence of her guilt, but your brother found it easily. Catherine felt responsible for what her father had done

years, I believed Frank Levett would hunt them down,

“Why not?”

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