CHAPTER 3: THE MAN IN THE FRONT ROW
The courtroom was packed the next day.
The forensic report had arrived.
The flash drive contained everything:
Emails. Bank records. Internal reports.
And proof of fraud inside Langford Corporation.
The missing $500,000?
Never stolen.
Just moved through hidden accounts.
Then laundered.
And covered up.
But the most shocking part wasn’t the money.
It was the fire.
It had been deliberately started to destroy evidence.
The judge looked up slowly.
“And the person responsible?”
The forensic expert hesitated.
“An executive inside the company.”
A pause.
Then:
“Mr. Richard Langford.”
Silence.
The wealthy man in the front row froze.
For the first time… he didn’t look powerful.
He looked trapped.
Marcus leaned back slowly.
“So my mother was telling the truth…”
The prosecutor stood up immediately.
“This is impossible—”
But the judge raised his hand.
“No. It’s not.”
And that’s when the boy finally spoke again.
Quietly.
“My grandma said you would try to hide it again.”
All eyes turned back to the lunchbox.
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But there was still one final piece inside it.
Something no one had looked at carefully yet.
