The Thorne Heiress Unveiling Shadow novel Chapter 85

The news of the newly christened "Evelyn Thorne Institute for the Humanities" spread through the Sterling campus like wildfire. The story was a perfect campus fairy tale: the brilliant, quiet student, wronged by a corporate bully, was now the namesake of a prestigious new academic center, thanks to her powerful, mysterious fiancé.

Evelyn's reputation at the university was sealed. She was no longer a subject of gossip; she was a legend.

But she paid it no mind. Her focus was entirely on the new lead.

When Kaelen's Koenigsegg pulled up that afternoon, she was already waiting, her laptop in her bag. The moment she slid into the passenger seat, the easy, comfortable atmosphere of their daily routine was gone, replaced by a sharp, electric intensity.

He didn't ask about the donation or the fallout from the board meeting. He didn't need to. His eyes were fixed on her, searching, seeing the triumphant light in them.

"You found it?" he asked, his voice a low, urgent murmur.

She nodded, pulling out her laptop and turning the screen towards him. It displayed a complex, branching diagram, a map of a financial network that spanned the globe. At the very center of the web was a single, heavily fortified account.

"I did," she said, her voice tight with focus. "It was buried under seven layers of shell corporations and three different encrypted currencies. But I found it. The central nexus of her financial network."

Her finger traced a path on the screen. "And I found something else. In the transaction logs. A recurring name, always coded, but the pattern was unmistakable. The ultimate beneficiary of all these accounts."

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