Chapter 6 - The Retaliation Threat
"It was never your lobby, Uncle Gregory," Victoria answered back immediately, her tone as sharp as shattered glass.
"Your puppet Brandon has been fired, his security clearance is revoked, and the FBI is reviewing his offshore transfers right now," she declared boldly.
A long, heavy silence stretched over the phone line before Gregory let out a low, dangerous sigh that sent chills down the room.
"You always were too stubborn for your own good, just like your father," Gregory remarked, his voice dropping into a sinister threat.
"Do you really think a twenty-five-year-old girl in a designer blazer can stop a restructuring plan fifteen years in the making?" he sneered.
"I don't need to stop it, Gregory," Victoria shot back. "I own sixty percent of the voting stock, and I am calling an emergency board meeting for Friday."
"Be careful walking out to your car tonight, Victoria," Gregory warned softly before the phone line went completely dead.
Marcus immediately reached for his radio headset, alerting the entire mobile security team stationed around the perimeter of the building.
"Raise security protocol to Level Five," Marcus ordered into his microphone. "No one enters or leaves this tower without my explicit clearance."
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Victoria stood up from her chair, looking out at the city lights below, fully aware that a war for her family's empire had officially begun.
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