Lucia worked obsessively. Tracing the account. Following digital breadcrumbs through international banking systems. Shell companies. Proxy holders. Layers of protection.

Two weeks of sleepless nights. Hundreds of documents. Dozens of dead ends.

Finally. A breakthrough.

"I found it," she called Sienna. Exhausted but triumphant. "The account. It's registered to a shell company. Cayman Islands. Called Meridian Holdings."

"Who owns Meridian Holdings?"

"That took longer. But I cracked it. The beneficial owner is listed as Elena Santini."

Sienna's blood went cold. "Elena Santini? Lorenzo's daughter?"

"Yes. But that's impossible. Elena died. Childhood illness. Lorenzo mourned her publicly. Had a funeral. Everything."

"Apparently not. Because someone named Elena Santini owns this company....