Chapter 8 - Elliot Interrogates The Family Attorney About His Father's Past
At 1:00 AM, Elliot hammered his fists against the locked front door of family attorney Victor Sterling’s suburban estate.
Victor threw open the door wearing a silk bathrobe, looking thoroughly alarmed to see the frantic Hayes heir on his porch.
“Elliot? Do you have any idea what time it is? What is the meaning of this?” Victor stammered nervously.
“Drop the act, Victor,” Elliot snarled, pushing his way past the elderly lawyer into the brightly lit foyer.
Elliot slammed the photograph of Clara Vance onto the entryway table right beneath the crystal chandelier.
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“Tell me why my father paid off Clara Vance two decades ago and scrubbed her existence from corporate records!” Elliot demanded.
Victor went completely pale, his hands trembling as he stared down at the faded image from 1994.
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