Chapter 15 - Adrian Enters The Forbidden Room Beneath The Library Floor
Back in Connecticut, Adrian refused to back down as he faced Celeste inside the high-tech server room. "If my father destroyed your family, take it up with the corporate board, but leave my home alone," Adrian demanded.
Celeste slipped the flash drive into her coat pocket, her expression hardening into absolute ice. "The board is gone, Adrian, and soon this entire estate will be seized by federal marshals," she stated flatly.
She turned around and pressed a hidden panel on the server rack, causing the back wall to slide open. Behind the rack was a set of spiral stairs leading down into the dark, hidden vault beneath the garden terrace.
Before Adrian could stop her, Celeste descended into the subterranean darkness with quick, decisive steps. Adrian followed her down the spiral stairs, his flashlight cutting through the damp, stagnant air of the secret underground room.
The vault was filled with old filing cabinets, financial certificates, and a massive mahogany desk covered in dust. In the center of the room sat an open metal box containing original deeds and unrecorded family wills.
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Celeste walked up to the desk, picking up a faded photograph of a young woman standing outside a burning office building. "This was my mother," Celeste said softly, her voice trembling with decades of suppressed grief and rage.
"Malcolm locked her out of her own inheritance and left her to die in the streets of Chicago," Celeste accused bitterly. Adrian stood in the doorway, realizing the cycle of vengeance could no longer be stopped with corporate apologies.
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