Chapter 6 - The Family Patriarch Receives An Unwelcome Midnight Visitor
Miles away in an exclusive gated estate in Greenwich, Arthur Hayes sat in his leather armchair reading the evening financial reports.
The grandfather clock in the foyer chimed midnight just as the heavy iron front gates groaned against their automated hinges.
Arthur lowered his reading glasses, frowning as headlights swept across the high leaded-glass windows of his drawing room.
He expected his son Elliot to arrive with updates regarding corporate restructuring, not a battered black sedan idling outside.
Instead of his son, the heavy oak front door slowly clicked open without a single knock or polite announcement.
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A lone figure stepped into the candlelit foyer, wrapped in a dark trench coat with the collar turned up high against the wind.
Arthur reached for his desk phone to alert private security, but his hand froze as the visitor stepped into the illumination.
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