Chapter 8 - THE HEIR's RETURN
At six o'clock in the morning, a sleek black Gulfstream jet touched down on the wet tarmac at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
Julian Sterling, Eleanor’s thirty-two-year-old son and CEO of Sterling Capital, stepped down the stairs into the cold fog.
He wore a custom-tailored charcoal three-piece suit, his sharp features and dark hair radiating an aura of dangerous intelligence.
His personal attorney, a ruthless corporate fixer named Victor Vance, stood waiting by a tinted limousine on the runway.
"How bad is it, Victor?" Julian demanded without greeting, his voice cold and devoid of any brotherly or filial emotion.
"The Department of Justice froze all domestic assets, Julian... your mother is being processed at the Metropolitan Detention Center," Vance reported.
"My mother was careless," Julian sneered, sliding into the leather back seat of the limousine as the driver closed the door.
"She let a orphan girl with a grudge destroy thirty years of family prestige in a single evening," Julian spat out coldly.
"What are your orders, sir?" Vance asked, pulling out a encrypted laptop from the seat compartment.
"Activate the contingency protocols in Zurich," Julian commanded, his dark eyes staring out at the Manhattan skyline in the distance.
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"And find out everything there is to know about Ethan Vance... including why he betrayed our family for Clara."
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