Chapter 10 - Midnight Tension Rises Inside the Heavy Vault Room
Upstairs in the grand master suite, Adrian lay awake staring at the vaulted ceiling while the grandfather clock struck midnight.
His phone buzzed violently against the bedside table, shattering the quiet atmosphere of the sleeping estate.
Adrian snatched the device, pressing the speaker button with a heavy sense of impending doom weighing on his chest.
“Boss, we’ve got a major security breach on the outer encrypted networks,” Vincent’s frantic voice echoed through the room.
“What kind of breach? Did someone hit the perimeter gates?” Adrian demanded, sitting upright against the pillows.
“No. It’s an automated dead-man switch routed from Marcus’s burner phone down in the vault,” Vincent reported urgently.
“It’s broadcasting our entire financial ledger and warehouse coordinates directly to federal prosecutors and Interpol.”
Adrian closed his eyes, realizing that Marcus had weaponized his own capture into a final act of catastrophic sabotage.
“Shut down the mainframe servers immediately! Cut every fiber-optic cable entering this property!” Adrian roared into the phone.
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“It’s too late, boss. The data packet is already halfway through uploading to the federal secure cloud network.”
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