Grant let his team trail Loretta rather than stop her immediately on the spot, wanting badly to see exactly where all of that stolen money would finally surface after years of careful hiding. She led them directly to a private bank on the far side of the county where she attempted to withdraw $2,400,000 from a designated emergency account just before the sun came up over the parking lot. Tessa managed to freeze the transfer at the very last possible second from her terminal miles away and face suddenly with nowhere left in the world to run. Loretta finally agreed to cooperate fully with the investigation surrendering her passwords without protest and revealing that Marjorie planned to convene an emergency board meeting the very next morning to formally shift every ounce of criminal liability onto the shell companies before dissolving the entire association outright. Grant made the decision to let that meeting happen exactly as Marjorie had planned it.
He wanted her to confess everything in front of the very board members and the very residents she had spent years quietly terrorizing into silence. The clubhouse filled with residents early the next morning the room buzzing with nervous whispers as Marjorie sat behind a long table at the front flanked on either side by board members who still had no idea how close the entire structure was to collapsing beneath them. She called the gathering an internal hearing against Grant Holloway clearly relishing what she believed would be one final satisfying chance to perform her authority in front of an audience. Grant walked in alone dressed plainly in an ordinary jacket watched by neighbors who still did not know the full truth of who he actually was or what he had spent the last several weeks quietly building against her. Marjorie read off a long list of entirely fabricated charges in a clear confident voice theft of HOA records, interference with governance, destruction of community property, threats against staff members, and refusal to pay a manufactured debt of $187,000 before announcing to the stunned room that the board would formally seize his home within 72 hours.
Grant calmly asked which specific bylaw permitted the association to enter or seize a home that had never legally belonged to it in the first place. A simple question that visibly caught Marjorie off guard. With Nolan absent and unable to invent an answer for her on the spot, Marjorie found herself improvising rules that existed nowhere on paper. Her composure slipping visibly with every passing second under the weight of her own lie. He pressed further, asking loudly enough for the entire room to hear about 38 separate homes sold quietly to companies that all shared a single registered address.