Chapter 16 - THE MOTHER'S SCHEME
The waiter was dragged into a private room, where federal agents quickly identified him as a hitman hired through an encrypted network.
Under intense interrogation, the suspect admitted he had been paid two hundred thousand dollars to slip lethal toxins into Clara's drink.
"Who hired you?" Marcus demanded, slamming his hand onto the table.
"A woman... she called herself Eleanor," the hitman whimpered, terrified of the federal officers surrounding him.
Thirty minutes later, federal marshals raided Eleanor Vance's luxury penthouse on Park Avenue.
They found Eleanor in her master bedroom, packing heavy duffel bags filled with gold bullion and foreign currency.
"Eleanor Vance, you are under arrest for attempted murder and conspiracy," the lead marshal declared, clicking handcuffs onto her wrists.
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Eleanor spat at the officers as she was dragged down the marble hallway, her expensive designer clothes disheveled and ruined.
The news of Eleanor's arrest sent Vance Global stock soaring as investors realized the corrupt faction of the family had been completely purged.
