Chapter 14 - The Hidden Audio Recording Plays Across The Hall
Back at the downtown skyscraper, Julian pushed open the heavy mahogany doors of Marcus’s executive corner office.
Marcus sat at his glass desk looking pale and defeated, surrounded by open laptop computers and federal auditors.
“Julian... I can explain everything if you just give me five minutes to talk through the shareholder restructuring,” Marcus stammered.
“You don’t have five minutes, Marcus, and you certainly don't have a corporate defense left,” Julian stated coldly.
Leo walked around his father, pointing directly at the heavy wooden bookshelf behind Marcus’s leather chair.
“The wall vault is right behind those law books, Daddy... press the blue spine on volume four,” Leo instructed clearly.
Marcus flinched violently, his eyes widening in sheer panic as the child exposed his deepest, most guarded secret.
Julian stepped forward, reaching out to push the designated book spine until a hydraulic hiss echoed behind the shelf.
The heavy bookcase swung inward on hidden hinges, revealing a steel wall safe embedded deep within the concrete pillars.
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Julian reached into his pocket, pulling out the master override key he had quietly recovered from Victoria’s clutch earlier.
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