They Forced Me to Take the Fall…Then a Billionaire Heir Chose Me!
Chapter 9
Six months later, Ava received a letter.
It came from Richard.
She almost threw it away.
Instead, she opened it.
Inside was one sentence:
You still don’t know why you were chosen.
Ava stared at the words.
She showed Julian.
His expression changed immediately.
“What does he mean?”
“I don’t know.”
They contacted the investigators.
Richard refused to explain.
But the letter triggered a new investigation.
The original fraud wasn’t simply designed to frame Ava.
Someone had specifically searched her employment history months before the crime.
They had selected her because of something in her past.
Ava began investigating herself.
She found an old employment record from her first job.
Then another.
Then a sealed file.
The file contained information about her father.
Ava had always believed her father died in an accident when she was nine.
But the file told a different story.
He had worked for a financial intelligence unit.
And he had investigated Blackwood International twenty-two years earlier.
Ava stared at the report.
Her father had discovered illegal offshore accounts.
He had tried to expose them.
Then he disappeared.
The official report called it an accident.
It wasn’t.
Ava looked at Julian.
“My father was investigating your family.”
Julian’s face went pale.
“Twenty-two years ago.”
“And they chose me because of him.”
The conspiracy went deeper than either of them realized.
Richard hadn’t chosen Ava randomly.
He had known exactly who she was.
And he had used her father’s history to manipulate her.
Julian opened his father’s old notebook.
They found a name.
Ava’s father.
Next to it was a handwritten note:
If anything happens to me, protect his daughter.
Ava’s eyes filled with tears.
Julian looked at her.
“My father knew.”
“He knew my father.”
“And he tried to protect you.”
Ava finally understood why Julian’s father had given them the notebook.
He hadn’t simply wanted to expose Richard.
He had wanted to finish something he had started decades earlier.
The truth about Ava’s father.
That night, Julian took Ava to the Blackwood estate.
His father was waiting.
He looked older.
But his eyes were clear.
Ava approached.
“Why did you protect my father?”
He looked at her.
“Because I failed him.”
Ava sat beside him.
“What happened?”
The old man told her everything.
Her father had discovered the first version of Blackline’s financial network.
He tried to expose it.
Blackwood’s senior executives buried the evidence.
But Julian’s father secretly preserved copies.
He had spent twenty years waiting for the right person to expose it.
Ava looked at Julian.
“And that person was me.”
His father nodded.
“Your father trusted that someday his daughter would be strong enough to finish what he started.”
Ava cried.
Not because she had lost her father again.
But because for the first time, she understood why.
Her entire life had been shaped by a secret she never knew existed.
And now she finally had the truth.
