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I spent the next four hours digging. I used my private investigator\u2014the one I\u2019d kept on retainer since I made my first million\u2014to look into Silas and Elena\u2019s finances.<\/div>\n
The “masterpiece” was a business.<\/div>\n
The Vances were broke. They had gambled their fortune on Bella\u2019s career. The concerts, the sponsorships, the high-stakes recordings\u2014it was all leveraged. If Bella didn’t play, the bank took the house. If Bella didn’t play, the Vances were paupers.<\/div>\n
They had been pushing her. Feeding her performance-enhancing stimulants to keep her at the piano for fourteen hours a day. They had literally burned out her kidneys to keep the music playing.<\/div>\n
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I spent the next four hours digging. I used my private investigator\u2014the one I\u2019d kept on retainer since I made my first million\u2014to look into Silas and Elena\u2019s finances. The “masterpiece” was a business. The Vances were broke. They had gambled their fortune on Bella\u2019s career. The concerts, the sponsorships, the high-stakes recordings\u2014it was all…<\/p>\n

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