Chapter 17 - The Shadow Of Chicago
Claire stood up from her chair, her hands shaking as she read the remaining pages of the confidential legal dossier.
The documents detailed a secret military research project conducted during the Cold War under the supervision of the United States Navy.
According to the files, Arthur Sterling and Thomas Vance hadn’t just been estranged father and son; they had been rivals in a covert intelligence war.
The patent for the turbine engine technology wasn’t just a commercial power design—it was the key component for a next-generation military defense system.
And the Dupont family in Chicago held the master activation codes required to operate the secondary military infrastructure.
Evelyn Dupont’s older brother, Victor Dupont, had just been released from military service and had assumed control of the family estate.
Victor wasn’t an arrogant socialite like his sister Evelyn; he was a trained military strategist with vast international connections.
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He had spent ten years collecting evidence to prove that the Sterling family had orchestrated his father’s death in 1976.
And now that Claire and Marcus controlled the Sterling estate, Victor was coming to collect his family’s blood debt.
