Chapter 3 - The First Iceberg
Inside the vast, wood-paneled study of the Sterling estate, Arthur listened to a concise, whispered summary of the confrontation from the chauffeur.
He didn't shout. His voice grew unnervingly quiet, like the eye of a hurricane.
"Get Marcus Vance on line one," Arthur instructed his private secretary.
Marcus Vance, the chief legal counsel for the Sterling conglomerate, answered on the first ring.
"Arthur? Is everything alright?" Marcus asked, sensing the urgency in the room.
"My son-in-law, Liam Thorne, assaulted my daughter tonight," Arthur said, staring at the framed Declaration of Independence on his wall.
There was a stunned silence on the other end of the line before Marcus replied, "Consider it done, Arthur. What are the instructions?"
"Initiate Operation Valkyrie, phase one," Arthur Sterling commanded, his micro-expression one of cold steel.
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"Freeze every liquid asset held jointly by Mariana and Liam immediately. Liquidate the margin accounts. And prepare the injunction against Thorne Enterprises headquarters in Manhattan before dawn."
The financial infrastructure underpinning Liam Thorne’s entire world had just been vaporized.
