CHAPTER 8

Later that afternoon, Christian was using Ana's study/library on a conference call and Ana was doing projections and calling her department heads for numbers to run the figures on the coffee table on the couch. Ana was going over her emails and got an unusual one.

She opened it and there were pictures and a video of Christian fucking a subs and whipping them but not in the red room. He even looked a bit younger. The message was, 'If you don't leave him, I'll ruin him in the press.' She clicked off her email.

Ana brought up a software program and ran the IP address through her software to locate the location. It was the address of 29 Columbia Key, Bellevue, Wa. She ran the address and it was Elena Lincoln.

Ana was pissed off. How did that bitch get her corporate email address? She texted Taylor to come to the living room. He came in and asked, "How can I help you Miss Steele?"

Ana said, "Come here and look at this. I don't know how she got my corporate email address." He was looking it over on her laptop. Ana showed him the IP address and the address it came from and who lives there.

Taylor said, "She certainly got busy plotting. Best you can do is block her address but it's temporary if she keeps opening new accounts to send to you."

Ana said, "I ought to set up an email bomb and copy her hard drive, sending a copy to the police, FBI, ex-husband and The Nooz. But we need the dirt."

Taylor looked at her and asked, "Do you know how to hack?"

Ana looked at him tucking her chin in and leaning away looking at him. She said, "Who me? …..Maybe." Taylor laughed. Christian walked in the room and saw the rare moment Taylor would laugh.

Christian smiled and said, "What's going on?"

Ana said, "I received a threat." Taylor got up and Christian sat down and looked at it and he was looking a bit green.

Taylor said, "Send me a copy of what you have." He put his card next to her computer on the table. Ana started attaching and sent a copy of everything to Taylor's email.

Ana looked at Christian and he looked like the wind was kicked out of him. She wrapped her arms around him and kissed his face saying, "Don't worry." He held her to himself.

He said, "They are going to have my in-house audit done within the next hour then I'll get the field audit done."

His phone went off. He answered it and went into her study, closing the door. Suddenly, she heard Christian yelling at someone on the phone in his office. Ana jumped. She signed off her laptop and went to the door of his office.

He yelled, "Roz, I don't care if we take a loss! It's the smallest company we own! She is not getting away with embezzling twelve million dollars from me! How the hell could I let this happen, damn it! That's two million a year on the average since I helped her get those damn salons! I want those salons closed at all three locations at 6 am and security twenty four hours on them for a field audit! I don't want her to be able to enter the property until it is complete then we will report to the authorities at the FTC and IRS! I'm done with it!" He slammed his fist into his desktop. Ana wondered what else Elena had on him? She recalled yesterday screaming she could ruin him on his phone. Ana was going to ask him if the pictures and videos were all she had once he calmed down.

Ana went into the office and closed the door. She walked up to him, pushed him to sit in the desk chair. He wrapped his arms around her and picked her up off her feet, sat her on his lap and hugged her burying his face into her neck smelling her scent. Ana had her hand in his hair and caressed his back up and down. She said, "It will be alright, Christian.

He asked frowning, "How's that?"

She pushed back and said softly to him, "Use your threat of ruining her for embezzling to get all of what she has on you and your twelve million back. Tell her if she doesn't comply you will report her to the FTC (federal trade commission), FBI, and local police. If she doesn't, you may find more on her as you go through everything at her salons. Use that as a secondary backup to file charges. Let's hope there is more dirt on her. If I were you I would have someone look into offshore accounts she may have and see if they can hack it to change the password so she can't move it, then use that as a third leverage on her. Have someone also hack her home computer to see if she has dirt in there on you and others. Whatever you find on you, erase it. Have her house watched and have somebody sneak in and remove everything that might be or suspect that she has and of value like money or jewelry for her victims later on. She's a safe or lockbox person, I bet. Then you can get her on who knows what as a fourth backup. You could hold her whole life in your hand and tip off all the other charges afterwards."

Christian looked in her eyes and said, "You're a diabolical genius. Tell Taylor what you just said." Christian texted Taylor and told him to come to Ana's study. When he entered Ana told him her ideas to get Christian's money embezzled and the dirt she has on him that she threatened him with a couple weeks ago. She then told him her four ways to nail Elena depending on if she can be cracked like an egg. She continued and said, "If someone went in there and cleaned her out completely with passports, birth certificates, jewelry, evidence on Christian, books on businesses, book of passwords and cash, they could get damning evidence to use on her lifestyle with I don't know maybe… children?" Christian looked sick.

Taylor was totally surprised and asked, "Do you know how to do these things?"

She looked at him all innocently and said, "Who me? ….Maybe. safe cracking is fun to me." Ana slyly grinned at him. Taylor smiled at her.

She continued, "If you have people who can pull this operation off, I wouldn't have to get involved. If you have a problem, just put your two lips together, blow me a whistle and I can step in. You're gonna have to move fast to get everything going at once to fall in line. I can hack the overseas accounts right now." Taylor the stoic man started chuckling at her comment again. Taylor knew he was now dealing with a clever person that was unique.

Taylor said, "You do that and keep you in mind. I'll get the ball rolling sir if that's alright with you?" Christian agreed. Taylor left to get Welch on the phone. At that time, Welch told him that there were no clear angles on the car chase with Elena, or the assault. He said the guy who assaulted her must have known that the alley next to the building was a blind spot. Welch was going to get a move on the hacking with Barney.

Christian pulled Ana closer and kissed her passionately. He had never met anyone so damn beautiful and intelligent. They went into the living room, Ana turned to her laptop and brought up software. She went into her program and started a background check first on Elena Lincoln. It came back quickly but with three red flags on it. Ana cross-referenced the names that came up as three other aliases. She ran each one:

Emma Lou Watkins from Decatur GA (her first alias)

Caroline Louise Whitaker from Nashville TN,

Daphne Anne Chamberlain New York City NY,

Elena Jean Lincoln( Carter maiden name) Fort Worth TX.

Elena had three BDSM clubs in New York under Daphne Anne Chamberlain and two strip clubs under Caroline Louise Whitaker in Nashville.

She has two offshore accounts under Elena Lincoln:

Caye International Bank-Belize

Acct#167566079607567 $9,567,865.67

Finter Bank Zurich

Acct#34534683764108 $10,865,435.08

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Christian was sitting looking over her shoulder and couldn't believe what she was pulling up on Elena. Ana went in and hacked the accounts on some type of software she had that erased all tracks. Ana called it ghostware. She changed the account passwords to sixteen characters and a new id. Christian saw her hands flying across the keyboard typing and using her mouse. He studied her face and saw pure concentration as her eyes shifted slightly from line to line and page to page. Christian thought, 'She is brilliant in her own little world tracking and researching Elena and all her aliases. She is calculating and analytical.' He was amazed at her speed and thought process. Suddenly she stopped, blinked her eyes and turned to smile at him.

Ana said, "Her twenty million is stuck in both accounts and over twelve million or more of it yours. You may discover more at the salon locations. It will eventually be yours after it gets turned over to the IRS down the road for now." She kissed his lips and continued, "Now you don't need to worry, your money has been reserved and not going anywhere." Ana shut down her laptop.

Christian said softly caressing her face, "You are saving me. You know she is going to go crazy tomorrow when she can't access her salons." Ana giggled.

Taylor had set up surveillance watching Elena's house for a window of time to access. He increased security on Ana's property to stop anyone trying to access it. He also got Baker in security to change the codes at Escala and give them to nobody but himself.

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The next day, Ana woke up with Christian wrapped around her with her back against his chest in her bed. He was holding her left breast in his hand as he slept. They both had gone to bed alone in separate bedrooms, but he must have come in during the night.

Ana had woken up because she heard a noise of yelling at a distance. She tried to get up but Christian would tighten his hold on her. Ana said, "Christian, I have to go to the bathroom." He started to wake up and let her go. She got up and went to the bathroom, brushed her teeth and brushed her hair.

Ana put on her robe, looked through the peephole in her front door and looked outside towards the security wrought iron gate to enter her property. Elena was out of her car screaming at the guard to let her inside. The cops arrived and they were all talking to the guards and began practically to drag her to her car to get her to leave. Christian was next to her looking through the curtains on the window next to the front door.

Ana said giggling, "Boy, she's so pissed off. Her face was red as the devil's."

Christian said stoically with a straight face, "I hope they can get in her house and clean her out before she can do anything to me." Ana felt terrible about him worrying so much, but it was a time sensitive thing. If they can have the window to know she will be gone from her house, they can take it all.

Christian said, "Let's go get dressed and have breakfast, Ana?" She nodded and went back to her room and he went to the guest room.

As Christian got dressed he wondered why she didn't get mad at him sleeping in her bed. She didn't even mention it. He guessed she didn't mind it or she would say something later.

While Ana was getting dressed she wondered if she should do the search of Elena's house. She wanted to lay his mind to rest on it. If they don't do it today, she would bet Elena will get over the shock of today and dole out punishment tomorrow.