Chapter 8 - Wyatt Holbrook’s Lucrative Defense Contracts Begin To Mysteriously Evaporate
Wyatt Holbrook sat in his father’s lavish corporate boardroom in Boston, celebrating his twentieth birthday with expensive imported champagne.
His father, CEO of Holbrook Defense Technologies, smiled proudly as his son bragged about escaping justice for the university assault.
Suddenly, the massive wall-mounted digital briefing display flickered off its presentation mode and flashed a single ominous seal.
A spinning silver eagle appeared across the screen above four unmistakable words: Vanguard Never Dies. “What is the meaning of this? IT department, shut this system down immediately!” the senior Holbrook shouted across the glass table.
An automated audio recording began playing through the high-end conference room speakers with crystal-clear acoustic perfection.
It was a recording of Wyatt bragging about shattering a nineteen-year-old girl’s jaw because she rejected his advances at a campus party.
“Turn it off! Turn it off right now!” Wyatt screamed, lunging across the mahogany table toward the central control console.
“Too late, young man,” his father’s phone rang loudly, interrupting the chaos with news from the Pentagon.
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“Mr. Holbrook, the Department of Defense just cancelled all active procurement contracts effective immediately due to gross security violations,” the caller said.
The Holbrook defense dynasty was collapsing in real time, destroyed not by market forces, but by a ghost from the Phantom Commander’s past.
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