Chapter 9 - Marcus Plots a Deadly Move to Silence Everyone
As the guards dragged Marcus kicking and screaming down the stone corridor, the mansion settled back into heavy silence.
Adrian sat by the window in his study, holding Lily tight while the rain began to lash against the glass panes.
“Are you okay, Daddy?” Lily asked softly, reaching up to wipe a stray tear from his hardened cheek.
“I’m okay, princess. The bad man is gone,” Adrian promised, forcing a reassuring smile for her sake.
Down in the subterranean basement vault, Marcus sat chained to a heavy steel chair in total, suffocating darkness.
He didn't panic; instead, a twisted, desperate grin spread slowly across his bruised and battered face in the shadows.
He had anticipated getting caught eventually, which was why he had set a dead-man switch on his encrypted burner phone.
If his biometric heartbeat tracker didn't check in with an outside server by midnight, a secondary package would activate.
It was a contingency plan designed to expose every hidden narcotics warehouse and money-laundering front across the eastern seaboard.
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“If I’m going down, Moretti, I’m burning your entire empire down to the bare ashes with me,” Marcus muttered in the dark.
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