Chapter 10 - The Palm Beach Vault
The coastal estate was guarded by three private security patrols wearing dark tactical gear, moving past the marble fountains.
Using signal jammers, Marcus disabled the estate's infrared laser fence for a ninety-second window, allowing them to slip past unnoticed.
They entered through the lower basement service entrance, navigating through the quiet, air-conditioned hallways beneath the main villa.
At the end of the corridor stood a massive steel vault door, equipped with a biometric hand scanner and dual combination dials.
Victoria attached her decryption drive directly to the scanner's maintenance port, watching the progress bar fill up rapidly on her screen.
"Bypassing secondary security protocols... thirty seconds remaining," the automated digital interface displayed in glowing green text.
With a heavy pneumatic hiss, the multi-ton steel vault door unlatched, swinging open slowly to reveal shelves lined with black binder ledgers.
Victoria stepped inside, her eyes scanning the labeled boxes until she spotted a metallic briefcase stamped with her father's crest.
She opened the briefcase, finding medical reports dated six months prior that made her blood run cold with sudden, violent terror.
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"Marcus... look at this," Victoria gasped, her voice shaking uncontrollably as she held up a laboratory toxicology analysis.
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