Julian answered on the first ring.<\/p>\n
I did not greet him.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you send an email pretending to be me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEighteen months ago. Carter Route address. Trustee approval for Meridian.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour computer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another silence.<\/p>\n
Rachel sat across from me.<\/p>\n
Vanessa stood beside the conference-room screen displaying the email header.<\/p>\n
\u201cJulian.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t send anything as you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid anyone use your computer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably. People use computers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour executive workstation?\u201d<\/p>\n
He exhaled sharply.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVanessa\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll come over.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel raised her eyebrows.<\/p>\n
I continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnswer the question first.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to see what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vanessa typed the document identifier into a message and sent him a copy.<\/p>\n
Thirty seconds passed.<\/p>\n
Then a minute.<\/p>\n
When Julian spoke again, his voice had changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, God.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember this.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou sent it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen explain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI let Marcus use my office.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAround then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a meeting with Meridian. His laptop had crashed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMarcus owned six computers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy yours?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJulian.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was again.<\/p>\n
The fatal weakness in two words.<\/p>\n
He asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI gave him the office. Maybe an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWere you there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he know your password?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was written inside the desk drawer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel stared at me.<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would you write your password in a drawer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I\u2019m an idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n
For once, Julian\u2019s self-assessment required no argument.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know he created an email address using my name?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know he sent trustee approval?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan anyone prove Marcus was at your computer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCalendar?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSecurity cameras?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEighteen months ago?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBadge access?\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The old warehouse executive floor required key-card entry.<\/p>\n
Julian\u2019s office had a separate electronic lock after confidential payroll files went missing years earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho had access?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMe, Marcus, IT.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPreserve everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, Julian. Do not touch the system. Tell IT in writing not to delete or modify access logs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you?\u201d<\/p>\n
The anger finally escaped.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause every time you say you understand, I find another document you signed, another entity you joined, another thing Marcus asked you to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian said nothing.<\/p>\n
My voice shook now.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t get credit for bringing Dad\u2019s ledger if you helped Marcus create the mess it exposes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much did you make from Hartwell?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout four hundred thousand.\u201d<\/p>\n
The number stunned me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou took four hundred thousand dollars?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOver three years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom money connected to Ellison Freight?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you\u2019re surprised I don\u2019t trust you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the first time, Julian did not defend himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t expect you to.\u201d<\/p>\n
The anger lost some of its heat.<\/p>\n
Not because I forgave him.<\/p>\n
Because he had finally stopped asking to be considered innocent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you going to do tomorrow?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the shareholder meeting?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you need me to do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Dad\u2019s letter lying beside my hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cVote based on what you actually know. Not what Marcus tells you. Not what I tell you. Read the documents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian was quiet.<\/p>\n
Then he said, \u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the call, Rachel leaned back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was either very principled or strategically terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably both.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou may need his vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could have secured it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had spent years angry that Marcus manipulated people into decisions.<\/p>\n
I was not going to discover authority and immediately imitate him.<\/p>\n
The shareholder meeting began at ten the next morning in Ellison Freight\u2019s main conference room.<\/p>\n
I had not entered the building in almost a year.<\/p>\n
The lobby still displayed the original Carter Route photograph Dad insisted on keeping after the rebrand.<\/p>\n
Three trucks lined up outside a rented warehouse.<\/p>\n
Dad in the middle.<\/p>\n
Twenty-two years younger.<\/p>\n
Proud as if he owned a fleet of a thousand.<\/p>\n
Someone had moved the photograph to a side wall.<\/p>\n
I stopped in front of it.<\/p>\n
Marcus\u2019s company awards occupied the central display now.<\/p>\n
Rachel stood beside me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Dad one more time.<\/p>\n
Then we went upstairs.<\/p>\n
Marcus sat at the head of the conference table.<\/p>\n
Of course he did.<\/p>\n
David sat to his right.<\/p>\n
A second attorney represented him personally.<\/p>\n
Vanessa sat beside me.<\/p>\n
Rachel attended because divorce and corporate issues had become impossible to separate cleanly.<\/p>\n
Julian arrived alone.<\/p>\n
Ethan did not attend in person.<\/p>\n
His lawyer appeared by video.<\/p>\n
Three minority shareholders joined remotely.<\/p>\n
Northbridge counsel observed without voting rights.<\/p>\n
Meridian did the same.<\/p>\n
The room contained more lawyers than businesspeople.<\/p>\n
Marcus opened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to say something before we turn this company into a courtroom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody interrupted.<\/p>\n
\u201cEllison Freight exists because people took risks.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked around the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeonard started it. I grew it. Every person here benefited because we refused to operate like a three-truck family business forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was truth in that.<\/p>\n
I let myself acknowledge it.<\/p>\n
Marcus had grown Ellison Freight.<\/p>\n
Denying that would make everything else easier emotionally and less accurate.<\/p>\n
He continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, we used leverage. Yes, we created affiliated entities. Those structures are common in growing companies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vanessa wrote something.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, documentation was imperfect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Imperfect.<\/p>\n
A generous word for signatures I never made.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut none of that changes the immediate fact. Meridian can accelerate. Northbridge can walk. If we spend the next month tearing each other apart, employees pay the price.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked directly at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m proposing we postpone all governance changes until the transaction closes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter closing, every shareholder gets paid. Debt gets cleared. Whatever claims Simone has against me can be resolved from my proceeds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel whispered, \u201cHe\u2019s offering personal escrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
I nodded.<\/p>\n
Marcus continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will place ten million dollars of my proceeds in escrow pending resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was a serious offer.<\/p>\n
More serious than the five million.<\/p>\n
Some minority shareholders shifted.<\/p>\n
Marcus knew his audience.<\/p>\n
He was giving them a clean exit.<\/p>\n
Vote with me.<\/p>\n
Get paid.<\/p>\n
Let the lawyers fight afterward.<\/p>\n
One shareholder asked, \u201cWill Northbridge close on those terms?\u201d<\/p>\n
Owen Price answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus looked furious.<\/p>\n
Owen continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cNorthbridge requires independent governance before re-engaging.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour position changed because Simone poisoned diligence.\u201d<\/p>\n
David touched Marcus\u2019s arm.<\/p>\n
Too late.<\/p>\n
Owen\u2019s expression remained neutral.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur position changed because material information was inaccurate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Vanessa began presenting the trust documents.<\/p>\n
No speeches.<\/p>\n
No accusation.<\/p>\n
Dates.<\/p>\n
Signatures.<\/p>\n
Certificates.<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s fifty-one-percent trust interest.<\/p>\n
Marcus\u2019s eighteen-percent vested interest.<\/p>\n
The unexercised options.<\/p>\n
Debt restrictions.<\/p>\n
Related-party disclosure requirements.<\/p>\n
When she finished, one minority shareholder asked the question Marcus had spent days avoiding.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs the fifty-one percent valid?\u201d<\/p>\n
Vanessa answered carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our legal opinion, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus\u2019s attorney disagreed.<\/p>\n
He argued Dad\u2019s later management letter preserved Marcus\u2019s operational authority.<\/p>\n
Vanessa produced the June 26 amendment.<\/p>\n
The attorney argued Exhibit C was missing.<\/p>\n
Then Rachel said, \u201cWe have testimony that Exhibit C was delivered to Marcus after Leonard\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every face turned toward Julian.<\/p>\n
He swallowed.<\/p>\n
Marcus stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cJulian.\u201d<\/p>\n
The word contained warning.<\/p>\n
Julian looked down at his hands.<\/p>\n
Then up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI gave you the envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus\u2019s face hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou gave me dozens of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one marked C.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou did then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJulian.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou asked whether there were copies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus leaned back.<\/p>\n
His expression became unreadable.<\/p>\n
Julian continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told me Dad changed the deal after you saved him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room went silent.<\/p>\n
Marcus looked at his brother for a long time.<\/p>\n
Then he said, \u201cYou have no idea what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian gave a sad, exhausted smile.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah. That\u2019s sort of been the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first resolution came to a vote.<\/p>\n
Independent forensic audit.<\/p>\n
The trust voted yes.<\/p>\n
Two minority shareholders voted yes.<\/p>\n
Julian voted yes.<\/p>\n
Marcus voted no.<\/p>\n
Passed.<\/p>\n
The second resolution restricted extraordinary related-party transfers pending audit.<\/p>\n
Passed by an even larger margin.<\/p>\n
Then came the dangerous one.<\/p>\n
Temporary suspension of Marcus\u2019s unilateral executive authority over debt, asset sales, acquisitions, and affiliated transactions.<\/p>\n
He would remain CEO.<\/p>\n
He could run daily operations.<\/p>\n
He could not borrow millions, sell control, or move major assets without independent approval.<\/p>\n
Marcus\u2019s attorney objected that the resolution violated his management agreement.<\/p>\n
Vanessa disagreed.<\/p>\n
They argued for twenty minutes.<\/p>\n
Finally one minority shareholder asked, \u201cWhat happens if we don\u2019t pass this?\u201d<\/p>\n
Meridian\u2019s counsel answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe proposed thirty-day standstill would not be available under current governance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room changed.<\/p>\n
That was the choice.<\/p>\n
Marcus\u2019s unrestricted control.<\/p>\n
Or thirty days to save the company.<\/p>\n
I hated that it had become so stark.<\/p>\n
Marcus knew it too.<\/p>\n
He looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf this passes, Northbridge will use the chaos to cut the price.\u201d<\/p>\n
Owen said nothing.<\/p>\n
Marcus continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cMeridian gets more control. Lawyers bill millions. Employees hear rumors. Customers leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of that could happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think restricting me protects people?\u201d Marcus asked.<\/p>\n
I answered quietly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think no one person should be able to do this again.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMake four hundred employees dependent on whether his private plan works.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked away.<\/p>\n
The vote began.<\/p>\n
The trust: yes.<\/p>\n
First minority shareholder: yes.<\/p>\n
Second: abstain.<\/p>\n
Third: yes.<\/p>\n
Julian had enough shares to make the outcome decisive against Marcus\u2019s objections.<\/p>\n
Everyone looked at him.<\/p>\n
His face went pale.<\/p>\n
Marcus spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore you vote, remember who paid your debts when Dad cut you off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian flinched.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarcus,\u201d David warned.<\/p>\n
Marcus ignored him.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember who gave you a job when nobody trusted you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian looked down.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember who protected you after Hartwell.\u201d<\/p>\n
That caught my attention.<\/p>\n
After Hartwell.<\/p>\n
Not because of Hartwell.<\/p>\n
After.<\/p>\n
Julian looked at Marcus.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said you wouldn\u2019t use that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m reminding you what loyalty means.\u201d<\/p>\n
Something changed in Julian\u2019s expression.<\/p>\n
Fear disappeared.<\/p>\n
Not because he became brave.<\/p>\n
Because Marcus had finally made fear more humiliating than honesty.<\/p>\n
Julian turned toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cHartwell wasn\u2019t my idea.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. You don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cJulian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian kept speaking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe four hundred thousand I got wasn\u2019t investment profit.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMarcus paid me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo put Hartwell partly in my name.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus\u2019s attorney told him to stop.<\/p>\n
Julian did not.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Marcus couldn\u2019t disclose another controlled affiliate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJulian,\u201d Marcus said.<\/p>\n
His brother looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd because Ethan wasn\u2019t supposed to know Marcus owned the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ethan\u2019s face appeared larger on the video screen as he leaned toward his camera.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone stopped.<\/p>\n
Julian stared at the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t know?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ethan\u2019s lawyer immediately spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy client will not answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Ethan already had.<\/p>\n
His expression was enough.<\/p>\n
Hartwell had been constructed with each participant knowing only part of the truth.<\/p>\n
Julian believed Ethan knew Marcus controlled it.<\/p>\n
Ethan apparently believed Julian was the principal outside investor.<\/p>\n
Marcus had kept even his collaborators separated.<\/p>\n
Julian turned back to the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cI vote yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The resolution passed.<\/p>\n
For the first time since my father\u2019s illness, Marcus Ellison no longer had unilateral authority over Ellison Freight\u2019s major financial decisions.<\/p>\n
Nobody celebrated.<\/p>\n
There was nothing to celebrate.<\/p>\n
Meridian\u2019s attorney immediately circulated standstill terms.<\/p>\n
Thirty days.<\/p>\n
No acceleration while conditions were met.<\/p>\n
Payroll protected.<\/p>\n
Ordinary operations continued.<\/p>\n
The company could breathe.<\/p>\n
Barely.<\/p>\n
The meeting adjourned after one.<\/p>\n
Marcus remained seated while everyone packed documents.<\/p>\n
I started toward the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimone.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped.<\/p>\n
Rachel stayed beside me.<\/p>\n
Marcus looked exhausted rather than angry.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got what you wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou control the vote. You restricted me. Northbridge won\u2019t move without you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t what I wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen what do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n
The question was different from the one he had asked in the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Then, he meant price.<\/p>\n
Now, I thought he actually wanted to know.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to find out what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I know pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n
His expression changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat pieces are missing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho created the false trustee email. Who signed my name. What Hartwell actually did. Where the rest of the borrowed money went.\u201d<\/p>\n
At that, Marcus looked away.<\/p>\n
Tiny movement.<\/p>\n
But I saw it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rest,\u201d I repeated.<\/p>\n
He gathered his papers.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re going to regret pulling every thread.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause not all of them lead to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
He left.<\/p>\n
At three-thirty, the forensic accountants received emergency access to Ellison Freight\u2019s financial systems.<\/p>\n
At five, they found the first concealed account.<\/p>\n
At six-fifteen, they found the second.<\/p>\n
At seven-forty, Vanessa called me back into the conference room.<\/p>\n
A transaction map filled the screen.<\/p>\n
Ellison Freight funds moved into Briar Ridge.<\/p>\n
Briar Ridge transferred money into Hartwell.<\/p>\n
Hartwell paid consulting fees.<\/p>\n
Those fees moved through another entity we had never seen.<\/p>\n
Crescent Bay Services LLC.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho owns Crescent Bay?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
The forensic accountant enlarged the beneficial ownership record.<\/p>\n
For several seconds, nobody spoke.<\/p>\n
The registered owner was not Marcus.<\/p>\n
Not Julian.<\/p>\n
Not Ethan.<\/p>\n
It was a woman named Claire Donnelly.<\/p>\n
I knew the name.<\/p>\n
Not from Ellison Freight.<\/p>\n
From Marcus\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n
Two years earlier, Claire had texted him during dinner.<\/p>\n
He told me she was an outside restructuring consultant.<\/p>\n
I had believed him.<\/p>\n
The accountant opened the payment history.<\/p>\n
Crescent Bay had received more than two-point-three million dollars.<\/p>\n
Then he opened property records.<\/p>\n
Six months earlier, Crescent Bay purchased a condominium in Miami.<\/p>\n
The emergency contact listed on the mortgage application was Marcus Ellison.<\/p>\n
I stared at the screen.<\/p>\n
Rachel looked at me carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you know who she is?\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought about Marcus\u2019s unexplained trips.<\/p>\n
The nights downtown.<\/p>\n
The second phone he once claimed belonged to a client project.<\/p>\n
All the financial deception had been so large that I had stopped considering the simplest kind of betrayal.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d I said quietly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019m about to find out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian answered on the first ring. I did not greet him. \u201cDid you send an email pretending to be me?\u201d Silence. \u201cWhat?\u201d \u201cEighteen months ago. Carter Route address. Trustee approval … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chapter-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}