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Her Aunt Called Her Useless in Front of Everyone — Until Beatrice Proved the Northern Accounts Were False

Her Aunt Called Her Useless in Front of Everyone — Until Beatrice Proved the Northern Accounts Were False

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"Perhaps not a judge," Beatrice conceded, her lips curving into a very slight, predatory smile. "But the Railway Commission certainly will. I have drafted a letter to the Board of Directors, detailing how one of their primary investors is funding the project with capital embezzled from a prominent Northern estate. Should I send this to the Times, the scandal will cause your fellow investors to withdraw overnight. The railway will collapse before a single track is laid, and your own legitimate fortune, heavily leveraged in this endeavor, will burn with it."Moray stared at her. The air in the room grew suffocating. He was a man accustomed to crushing his enemies with power and pedigree, but sitting before him was a woman who had bypassed the game entirely, targeting the very architecture of his wealth. She had cornered him with nothing but ink, paper, and ruthless, immaculate logic."You are a very dangerous creature, Miss Vance," Moray whispered."I am an accountant, my lord," Beatrice replied smoothly. "And I prefer my ledgers to balance. You will sign over the railway shares to the Vance estate, equal to the sum of sixty-five thousand pounds, plus ten percent for the inconvenience you have caused my family. In exchange, I will burn Mr. Hawcroft’s private ledger in this very fireplace."
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