Chapter 6 - Lucas Discovers Who Trapped Him At The Gala
Mabel looked away, staring blankly out the window as the first rays of morning sunlight broke over the city skyline.
“Because someone inside your corporate inner circle deliberately engineered your isolation last night,” Mabel stated quietly.
Lucas froze, his jaw tightening as the pieces of a sinister puzzle began clicking together in his mind.
“Marcus... my vice president and managing director,” Lucas muttered, recalling who insisted on locking the ballroom doors.
“He knew about your high-risk pregnancy and made sure you couldn’t reach the hospital in time,” Mabel added bitterly.
“He wanted to break me... to destroy my family so he could execute a hostile takeover of the company,” Lucas growled.
The grief in Lucas’s eyes instantly transformed into a cold, dangerous fury of a betrayed titan.
“Where are you going?” Mabel asked as Lucas turned abruptly toward the hospital room door.
“To settle accounts with the monsters who destroyed our family,” Lucas replied in a low, deadly whisper.
May you like
He strode out of the room, leaving the American flag fluttering slightly in the draft of the closing door.
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