Chapter 4: The Collapse of Ambition
"This is a mistake!" Evelyn shrieked, her arrogance shattered. She lunged for the laptop on the counter, desperate to delete the logs, but the screen was already dead. The smart-home system had locked out all external inputs.
"There are no mistakes in my company," Arthur said, his voice dropping to a whisper. "You thought you were smarter than the man who built this empire. You thought your greed was faster than my foresight. But you forgot one thing, Evelyn: when you build a house of cards, you don't build it for protection. You build it to be knocked down."
The back door kicked open. Agents in tactical gear flooded the kitchen, their weapons drawn. Evelyn crumbled to the floor, her phone clattering onto the marble. She was no longer the master of the estate; she was a suspect in a high-profile felony case.
