Chapter 4 - Returning To The Vandalized Virginia Home For Answers
The dashboard clock of Ethan’s rental car glowed 4:12 PM as he tore out of the St. Catherine Medical Center parking lot. The thirty-minute drive back to his suburban Virginia house felt like a slow-motion nightmare.
When he pulled into the gravel driveway, the house looked entirely abandoned in the gathering dusk. The front door was unlocked, a crude crowbar mark gouged deep into the white wooden frame.
Ethan stepped across the threshold with his hand resting firmly on his concealed sidearm. The living room was completely ransacked, cushions slashed open and picture frames smashed into pieces on the floor.
He moved silently down the hallway toward the master bedroom, his tactical instincts overriding every human emotion. The closet door stood wide open, its hidden floor safe ripped straight out of the concrete foundation.
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Victor wasn't just trying to hurt Lily; he was hunting for something she had stolen from his corporate empire. Ethan knelt beside the jagged hole in the floorboards.
A single sheet of paper fluttered out from beneath the ruined baseboards. He picked it up, his eyes scanning the corporate letterhead of Dane Global Industries. It was a signed transfer deed for millions in municipal development funds.
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