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The day the East Edinburgh development reached completion, Gerald Ashford attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony with the satisfaction of a man who believed he had outmanoeuvred everyone.

He was in the middle of shaking hands with a group of investors when Eliana arrived.

She had brought seven officers with her.

Gerald's smile vanished before the handcuffs were on his wrists. He turned, and the expression on his face when he found his daughter standing behind the officers was something she had spent a long time imagining.

He was still shouting as they led him to the car.