Chapter 5 - Carter Tries To Bargain With Financial Documents And Lies
Elena looked into her father’s eyes, offering a faint, brave smile despite the sharp, stinging pain radiating across her back from the whip.
“I’m fine, Dad. He used the whip, just as you predicted he would when cornered,” Elena replied, her voice remaining firm and unbroken.
Alexander’s eyes turned back toward Carter, the warmth instantly vanishing, replaced by a cold, predatory stare that made Carter shudder.
Carter dropped the leather whip onto the marble floor, raising both hands in a desperate, frantic posture of total, cowardly surrender.
“Mr. Van Doren! Please! There’s been a terrible misunderstanding!” Carter pleaded, his voice cracking with pathetic, desperate desperation.
“I didn't know she was your daughter! Victoria told me Elena was an undercover corporate spy trying to steal our trade algorithms!”
Victoria turned on Carter in shock, her eyes wide as her partner threw her under the bus to save his own miserable skin.
“You lying coward!” Victoria shrieked at Carter. “You were the one who ordered the whip brought up from the stables ten minutes ago!”
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Alexander raised his silver walking stick one inch, tapping it lightly against the marble floor to command absolute, immediate silence in the room.
“Quiet,” Alexander commanded softly, and both Carter and Victoria instantly went dead silent, paralyzed by the sheer authority of the elder titan.
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