Home Entertainment Game Technology Six months after a bullet left me paralyzed, my fiancée secretly ordered the staff to stop my afternoon therapy because she believed helping me was pointless, but the exhausted aide earning twenty-five dollars an hour refused to treat me like a lost cause. I had spent my life surrounded by men terrified of my name, yet it took one brutally honest woman washing my back to make me realize the person wearing my engagement ring had already abandoned me.352

She thought I was returning to normal.

That night, I called my attorney, Lucia Moreno, from a prepaid phone Tessa bought with cash.

Lucia had served my father before me.

She listened without interrupting.

Then she said, “Do not sign anything.”

“I wasn't planning to.”

“Do not confront anyone.”

“Everyone keeps telling me that.”

“Because everyone knows you.”

Within forty-eight hours, Lucia had arranged an independent neuropsychological assessment, revoked every temporary medical authorization Arya had ever received, frozen the Pier Nineteen transfer pending review, and hired a forensic accounting firm without using a single Corvino employee.

What they found was worse than betrayal.

Money had been moving for eleven months.

Shell companies.

Consulting payments.

Land purchases.

Dominic had been transferring assets toward Calder Blue Holdings, a company controlled through three layers of entities.

The final beneficial owner was hidden.

Lucia found it on day nine.

Arya Bellini.

Nine days after that, Dominic came upstairs.