Chapter 5
In the adjacent holding room, Chloe paced back and forth like a caged predator in her crimson gown.
Her blonde hair was coming undone, strands falling wildly around her red, flushed face.
She kicked the heavy mahogany door with her red silk heel, cursing at the guards standing outside.
"Open this door right now!" Chloe screamed, her knuckles white from banging on the wood.
The door swung open smoothly, revealing Elena standing in the doorway wrapped in her black velvet cloak.
Behind Elena stood Chief Vance, Edward's personal head of global security, holding a thick file folder.
"Save your breath, Chloe," Elena said calmly, stepping into the room with steady, elegant posture.
"The FBI has already seized your laptop from the penthouse master suite."
Chloe stopped dead in her tracks, her chest rising and falling in sharp, panicked gasps.
"You think you won, don't you?" Chloe sneered, trying to summon her usual arrogant posture.
"You're just a orphan Uncle Edward adopted out of pity after your parents died in that plane crash!"
Elena’s expression remained unreadable, her dark eyes fixing on Chloe with terrifying stillness.
"My parents didn't die in an accident, Chloe," Elena revealed, her voice dropping an octave.
"Your father cut the hydraulic lines on their private jet in 2016."
Chloe took a sharp step back, her heel catching on the thick Persian rug beneath her feet.
"You... you can't prove that," Chloe stammered, her voice losing all of its former anger.
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"The black box was recovered from the mountain crash site two days ago," Chief Vance interjected firmly.
"And your father's digital signature was on the maintenance override system."
