Chapter 11 - NATHAN’S LOGIN
I wanted to confront Nathan personally.
Grace said no.
I listened.
That was progress.
The independent cyber team interviewed him.
Nathan did not deny accessing the file.
He denied knowing it involved fraud.
Three weeks earlier, Beatriz emailed him from my account.
Adrian:
Nathan, download the family-property memo and send it to Beatriz. I’m boarding.
The message was sent while I was flying from Miami to London.
Nathan knew I was traveling.
The request looked normal.
He downloaded the memo.
Forwarded it.
Then deleted his local copy under company policy.
“Why didn’t you call me?”
Nathan looked at the investigator.
“Adrian hated being called about paperwork while traveling.”
That sentence hurt because it was true.
Again.
Beatriz did not invent our vulnerabilities.
She mapped them.
Then the cyber team examined my email session.
Login source:
Marbella villa.
Device:
office desktop.
Beatriz had physical access.
Nathan’s credentials were not stolen.
He had been manipulated.
That cleared one suspicion.
Not all responsibility.
He should have verified a sensitive request.
He admitted it.
“I made it easy.”
“So did I,” I said when we finally spoke.
The relationship changed.
Less blind trust.
More honest trust.
Then Nathan brought something investigators had not asked for.
Six months earlier, Beatriz requested a confidential valuation of Isabella’s twenty-two-percent Vega Global interest.
She told Nathan I wanted it for estate planning.
He provided a rough range.
$8 million to $10 million.
I never requested it.
That meant Beatriz knew the scale long before the trust amendment.
Then Nathan remembered a second request.
She asked how much voting influence the non-voting shares could gain if converted during a future recapitalization.
He refused to answer without me.
Beatriz dropped the subject.
Why would she care?
Grace reviewed the trust.
If Isabella’s non-voting shares were ever converted or exchanged during a corporate restructuring, trustee consent would matter.
Beatriz did not merely see the trust as cash.
She saw it as a path into Vega Global.
That made my company exposure more serious.
Then the independent audit found a draft transaction.
Mar Azul would borrow money from Isabella’s trust.
Collateral:
a future pledge of Beatriz’s marital interest in Vega Global.
Problem:
Beatriz had no marital interest in my premarital shares under our agreement.
She knew that.
So why draft it?
Another document answered.
Postnuptial Property Clarification.
Supposedly signed by me.
It granted Beatriz a contingent economic interest in ten percent of my company shares.
I had never seen it.
Another forged signature.
Another paper.
This time, however, the notary was real.
Miguel Santos, a private notary in Málaga.
He claimed I appeared by video.
I had not.
The identity session recording still existed.
A man resembling me sat in shadow.
Not me.
Someone had impersonated me.
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The scheme now required a second participant beyond Beatriz and Ethan.
📖 Nathan was cleared as an accomplice, but a fake video notarization on a postnuptial document proved someone else had physically impersonated me for Beatriz. 👇
