Chapter 22 - SHADOWS FROM THE PAST
By early spring, news of Maya's pregnancy was celebrated by business partners and friends across New York.
However, three hundred miles away in a minimum-security federal facility, Arthur Vance received a visitor.
Elena Vance sat across from her father in the visitor room, looking pale, thin, and bitter in a plain grey sweater.
"Did you secure the offshore ledger before the federal marshals seized the house?" Arthur whispered urgently.
"I have the master key disk, Dad," Elena whispered back, her eyes flashing with a dangerous, unstable light.
"It contains the encrypted access codes to the Sterling family's private offshore reserves in Panama," she added.
"If you upload that code to the dark web, it will wipe out fifty percent of Sterling Financial's liquidity," Arthur instructed.
"I don't just want their money gone, Dad," Elena growled, her fingernails digging deep into the wooden table.
"I want Adrian to watch everything he loves turn to dust."
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A new, far more insidious threat was preparing to strike from the dark depths of the digital world.
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