Chapter 1 - THE LIQUIDATION IN COLD BLOOD
Minutes after a Cook County judge finalized my divorce from Thaddius Vance, my former mother-in-law, Evangelene, screamed through my phone, demanding an immediate wire of $85,000 for her daughter’s brand-new Mercedes-Benz. Entering the dealership, I hung up on her shrill ultimatums and confronted my former sister-in-law, Cassiana. Instead of delivering the cashier’s check she greedily demanded for her livestream birthday reveal, I dropped my certified divorce decree and a forensic accounting ledger onto the showroom table. Thaddius had forged my signature as a loan guarantor, and I declared on the record that I was there to dismantle their counterfeit dynasty once and for all.
