Chapter 14 - Silas Loses Everything He Stole
Inside the Lake County detention center, Silas Crane sat shivering in a cold, fluorescent-lit holding cell wearing an orange jumpsuit.
His expensive gold watch, diamond rings, and tailored suits had been replaced by coarse cotton and rubber slip-on shoes.
A prison guard unlocked the heavy metal door, tossing a thick stack of legal dissolution papers onto the steel table in front of him.
“Sign away your corporate holdings, your remaining bank accounts, and your pension, or stay in this box forever,” the guard stated flatly.
Silas grabbed a cheap plastic pen with trembling fingers, signing his name across fifty different legal documents in weeping despair.
Every single dime he had stolen from Knox Hartley was gone, reallocated to fund medical care and community shelters.
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He realized too late that crossing a mafia boss who controlled billions of dollars in real estate and shipping was a fatal mistake.
Greed had blinded him, and now absolute destitution and decades behind bars were all he had left in the world.
