Chapter 6 - THE WALL STREET POWER MOVE
By seven o'clock the following morning, news of the arrest had reached the highest trading floors of Wall Street.
Julian sat behind his massive obsidian desk at Sterling Financial Tower in downtown Manhattan, reviewing corporate documents.
His chief legal counsel, Arthur Pendelton, stood across the room holding a thick stack of revoked trust agreements.
"Victoria had already drawn three hundred thousand dollars from your personal slush account late last night," Arthur revealed.
"Freeze every account bearing her name," Julian commanded, his dark eyes narrowing with lethal precision. "Cancel her black cards, seize the Manhattan penthouse, and repossess the Bentley."
"Consider it done," Arthur replied, marking the legal documents with an official corporate stamp. "What about her father's firm in Chicago?"
Julian leaned back in his leather executive chair, resting his chin on his steepled fingers.
"Short their stock," Julian ordered mercilessly. "By the time her bail hearing starts tomorrow, her family empire will be entirely bankrupt."
In her cold holding cell at Westchester County Jail, Victoria sat on a concrete bench in her issued orange jumpsuit.
She demanded her one phone call, dialing her father’s office in desperate hopes of securing emergency bail money.
When the line connected, her father’s frantic voice delivered a devastating blow before she could even speak.
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"What did you do, Victoria? Julian Sterling is liquidating our entire family company as we speak!" he roared before hanging up.
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