Chapter 46

Ellia and her assistants sorted out the audits in Christian’s study, explaining to them how it was arranged. And they started going through the stacks together. Russell somehow managed to convince his mother and Lucianne that he’ll be a good, quiet little boy doing his homework at a small corner table in the study while the adults around him worked. Xandar didn’t mind since he was far away enough from Lucianne. 2

Since Ellia, Brigetta and Oliver were blackmailed into fabricating the audits without question, they never dared to scrutinize how the funds in the five people’s accounts were connected to each other. They were just told to change the figures so that the amounts resembled those of other government officials. (This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com)In essence, the analysis on the real audits had to now start from scratch. After comparing the audits, they found a pattern in the incoming and outgoing transactions of the five people in Ellia’s list. 1

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Every month for the past eighteen years, large sums of money would be deposited into the five people’s bank accounts. But the money did not come from a government account. The money that was channeled into the five people’s accounts came from twenty different bank accounts. So it would seem that the government funds were first deposited into the twenty different bank accounts, then transferred to the five people on the list.

What was odd was this: on a rotation basis, four of the five people in the list would transfer twenty percent of the siphoned sums to a company. The fifth person would transfer forty percent to the same company. Each person on the list would take turns being this fifth person to transfer forty percent every month

to, it changed every five years. For the first five years, it was to Rénova & Co. In the subsequent five years, it was to Hanabell Poll & Co. In the following five years, it was to a firm called Tellilla & Associates. And in the final three years and early this year, the money was transferred to

made everyone pause to take a break while she, Christian and Oliver went to the kitchen to get everyone a snack, Lucianne went to stand in front of the huge window in the study and stared into space. Xandar approached his mate and joined her at the window. His hand rested on her shoulder, and his thumb started drawing comforting

‘Looks like you were right. There is someone we

to be

before continuing, ‘We’ll find out who it is…or

good progress already.

Russell, who was concentrating on his homework before she linked, ‘We promised t o protect them, Xandar. I wouldn’t be able to forgive

these culprits before anything happens.” He kissed her forehead, and when they turned back to everyone

daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com) Russell’s eyes snapped up when he saw the food and he looked at his mother, as if asking for her permission. Ellia gave him an approving

from Russell before pecking a kiss on his forehead

his cheek after Russell left. Xandar’s annoyed face turned soft, and he pecked a kiss on her nose before they joined the others on the couch, with

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