Phoebe broke down crying. be like “Since before Mabel was ever accused.”
She placed the folder on his desk. “But that isn’t the worst of it. My father found out the truth back then, too… and I have the proof right here.”
PART 3
Damian stared at the leather folder sitting on his desk without reaching for it. “Explain that to me.”
Phoebe inhaled deeply, her breath unsteady. “Flynn had been siphoning money from our father’s operations for nearly a year. I came across the wire transfers while organizing tax filings for my dad. I took the statements straight to Arthur.”
“To your father?”
“Yes.”
Damian’s jaw tightened. Until then, everyone had believed Flynn had deceived his father, exploiting the old man’s fiery temper to make Mabel the scapegoat.
Phoebe’s revelation destroyed that assumption.
“What did your father do?” Damian asked, his voice dangerously low.
“He confronted Flynn. They had a furious argument behind closed doors. Flynn admitted he owed money to dangerous people and promised to repay it. But my father said a public scandal involving his son would destroy the Vance family name and jeopardize our bank credit lines.”
Phoebe opened the folder. Inside were printed email chains, internal bank audits, and a handwritten note written on Arthur Vance’s personal stationery.
“Two days later,” Phoebe whispered, “my father and Flynn decided to blame Mabel.”
Damian felt a wave of nausea. “Arthur Vance knowingly allowed an innocent woman—a single mother—to be framed and destroyed to protect his deadbeat son?”
