Chapter 26 - THE SYNDICATE LORD
"Who are you?" Reese called back from the shadows, his gun trained on the man's chest.
"I am Lord Julian Vance," the man announced, stepping into the light of the cellar hanging bulb. "Alexander Montgomery's original business partner."
Clara stepped out from behind the vault door, her face pale with shock. "Julian Vance? My father said you died in Monaco twenty years ago!"
"My death was necessary to build the Syndicate without federal oversight, my dear," Julian smiled elegantly.
"You killed Charles Sterling," Clara stated, her voice trembling with rage.
"Charles became sloppy and greedy," Julian dismissed casually. "He allowed an amateur like Victoria to compromise our thirty-year operation."
"What do you want from my family?" Clara demanded.
"I don't want your money, Clara," Julian said, gesturing to his masked men. "I want the master activation codes stored in that titanium trunk."
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"With those codes, your syndicate can control every automated defense grid in North America," Reese realized, his hand tightening on his weapon.
"Precisely," Julian nodded. "Now hand over the trunk, or none of you leave this mountain alive."
