Too Late to Hold Me Back novel 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?"

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."

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."

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?"

"It's highly likely. Adrian wouldn't trust keeping that much money anywhere else right now."

If millions in cash were sitting inside that house, a greedy opportunist like Mara would definitely be eyeing it.

"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."

"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."

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.