Chapter 65

She'd done a quick check on the new shareholders-pretty standard venture capital backgrounds, nothing sketchy on the surface. But that was exactly the problem. Too squeaky clean was just as suspicious. Bellamy couldn't shake the feeling that these supposed knights in shining armor dropping in to save the day were just too good to be true. When life keeps handing you cake, it's probably stuffing poison in the icing. No way to know what these slick investors were really thinking behind those friendly smiles. Bellamy knew better than to hang all her hopes on them. She was still grinding it out on her own. The Hawkins Group's reputation wasn't exactly glowing, and the Westside government project had gone belly up. Forget about any bank loans now. At her wits' end, she'd taken a trip to the villa near Golderncrest Memorial, dug through the collection room on the third floor, pulled out some old souvenirs from her overseas trips, and got someone to sell them off for quick cash. After all tha