“Enjoy that while you can,” Camila said with a calm smile. “It’s going to make excellent evidence in federal court.”

After the burial, Camila formally took control of eighty percent of the Stanford Empire.

But she held off on having Edwin arrested. She wanted him to expose the full reach of his own vanity first.

Donald set up an integrity audit built around a fictional mega-project called Riverfront Towers, dressed up as a multibillion-dollar real-estate venture.

Edwin received leaked “confidential” documents and believed at once that he’d landed the exclusive development contract.

To prove he could fund it, Edwin recklessly mortgaged every remaining asset, pledged machinery he didn’t own, and borrowed fifty million dollars from dangerous private lenders — certain a huge upfront payment would soon wipe out all his debts.