CHAPTER 9
The grand penthouse suite erupted into pure, unadulterated chaos as female relatives began weeping, screaming, and pleading with the arresting officers.
Javier was pulled up from the floor, his hands cuffed tightly behind his back as he looked at his mother with eyes full of pathetic, helpless betrayal.
"Mom! Do something!" Javier wailed as a deputy guided him toward the hallway. "You said her family had no power! You said her father was nobody!"
Carmen was forced to her knees beside the dining table, her wrists locked in cold steel handcuffs right over the transfer papers she had tried to force Sofia to sign.
She turned her head, glaring at Alexander with pure, toxic venom dripping from her eyes.
"You think you've won, Brooks?" Carmen hissed, her voice raspy and desperate. "My attorneys will have us out on bail in two hours, and we will destroy what's left of your pathetic daughter's life!"
Alexander walked slowly up to her, kneeling down until his face was only inches away from hers, his gray eyes colder than winter ice.
"Your bail was denied thirty minutes ago under federal witness intimidation statutes, Carmen," Alexander whispered softly into her ear. "You are never going to see the outside of a federal facility again, and your company is being liquidated by morning."
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He stood up, adjusting his field jacket, and turned his back on the crumbling Robles dynasty without looking back a single time.
As the officers escorted the cuffed family out through the hotel lobby, news crews from local Dallas stations were already waiting outside, camera flashes illuminating their complete, public downfall.
