Chapter 13 - The Mystery Man Strikes Back With Legal Threats
Before Richard could process the new betrayal, a sleek black town car pulled up outside the front gates of the estate.
Two high-priced corporate defense attorneys stepped out, marching straight up the front steps to demand immediate entry.
Richard opened the door himself, glaring at the expensive suits standing on his porch with unmasked hostility.
“We represent Marcus Sterling; we are here to serve notice of a retaliatory lawsuit for wrongful arrest and defamation,” the lawyer said.
Richard laughed out loud, a harsh, humorless sound that echoed across the quiet neighborhood street at two in the morning.
“Your client is sitting in a federal holding cell facing twenty years for grand larceny, and you’re threatening me with a civil suit?” Richard mocked.
“The charges will not hold up in court without the original physical ledger, which Marcus claims was unlawfully seized,” the lawyer insisted.
I stepped forward from the doorway, holding up a secure flash drive containing cloned digital backups of every single ledger page.
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“You mean this ledger? The federal prosecutors already have three encrypted copies of it,” I said with a confident smile.
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