Chapter 21 - A Mysterious Black Box Arrives At Her Doorstep
Late one quiet Friday evening, while the city lights flickered peacefully outside her penthouse windows, the private elevator chimed softly. Charlotte walked down the marble hallway, opened the heavy oak doors, and found a small, unmarked black box resting on a velvet pedestal.
There was no return address or postal stamp, only an embossed metallic seal from an international Swiss bank archive. Charlotte brought the package inside, placed it on her glass coffee table, and used a silver letter opener to break the heavy wax seal.
Inside lay an old encrypted flash drive and a handwritten note in ink that made her blood run cold instantly:
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“Charlotte, the Sterling family was only hiding the surface... the true founder of the Solmere Empire is coming to claim the deed next week.”
Charlotte slowly raised her eyes toward the dark penthouse windows as a pair of black luxury sedans rolled silently up to the hotel's private driveway...
