I figured that Mark had already found a roundabout way to ask me for money, so he must have talked about collaborating with OceanRise Group early on. He was just waiting for the right moment to bring it up, but before he could execute his plan, I had already poked through it.

He had long been scheming to get me to willingly hand over that fifteen million to him for his business.

Ugh, business? It was a premeditated excuse to trick me out of my money.

‘What a jerk!’ I ...