Chapter 21 - A Mysterious Black Box Arrives At Her Penthouse
Late one quiet Friday evening, while rain tapped gently against the high glass windows of her Manhattan penthouse, the private elevator chimed softly. Chloe walked down the marble corridor, opened the doors, and found a small, unmarked black box resting on a velvet pedestal.
There was no return address, only an embossed metallic seal bearing her father’s initials and a dark Swiss wax stamp. Chloe brought the package inside, placed it on her glass desk, and used a silver letter opener to break the heavy seal.
Inside lay an old encrypted flash drive and a handwritten note in ink that made her heart skip a sharp beat:
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“Chloe, Chad and Victoria were only pawns in a much larger game... I am landing at JFK in thirty minutes to claim what your father stole from me.”
Chloe slowly raised her eyes toward the rain-slicked city skyline as a pair of black luxury sedans pulled silently up to her building's private entrance...
