Chapter 6 - The Boardroom TrapVictor had planned everything.
The doors were electronically sealed.
The elevators were disabled.
The security team had been replaced.
Gabriel looked around.
“How many?”
“Twenty-three,” Victor said.
“Guards?”
“Mine.”
Nora's heart hammered.
Victor smiled.
“You two found too much.”
Gabriel stood.
“What do you want?”
“The company.”
“Why?”
“Because your father promised it to my family.”
“You killed my father.”
Victor shrugged.
“Your father died because he betrayed us.”
Nora stepped forward.
“My father too?”
“Yes.”
She stared.
“Why?”
“You don't understand what your father stole.”
“The account.”
Victor smiled.
“The Blackstone account.”
“Where is it?”
Victor looked at Gabriel.
“Inside the company.”
“Which account?”
Victor tapped the table.
“Yours.”
Gabriel froze.
“What?”
“Your personal trust.”
Gabriel shook his head.
“That was established when I was twelve.”
“Exactly.”
Nora realized.
The hidden money had been placed in Gabriel's name.
For years he had unknowingly controlled the evidence.
Victor wanted access.
But there was a problem.
Only Gabriel could authorize the final transfer.
Victor pulled out a contract.
“Sign.”
“No.”
Victor smiled.
“Then Nora dies.”
A guard grabbed Nora.
Gabriel moved.
“Touch her and you're dead.”
Victor laughed.
“You still think this is about power.”
He pointed at Nora.
“It's about leverage.”
Nora looked at Gabriel.
“Don't sign.”
Victor raised the gun.
“Wrong answer.”
Gabriel stared at Nora.
Then at the contract.
He signed.
Victor smiled.
“Good.”
Nora screamed.
Gabriel's phone vibrated.
A message.
You're doing fine.
He looked at Nora.
She understood.
The contract had been altered.
Gabriel had signed a decoy.
The real transfer remained locked behind biometric confirmation.
Victor didn't know.
The security doors opened.
Federal agents stormed the boardroom.
Victor's men dropped their weapons.
Victor ran.
Gabriel chased him.
They reached the roof.
Victor turned.
“You ruined everything.”
Gabriel stopped.
“No.”
“You had everything.”
“And I gave it up.”
Victor laughed.
“For her?”
Gabriel looked toward Nora, who had just stepped onto the roof with federal agents behind her.
“For the truth.”
Victor raised his gun.
A sniper shot from a nearby building.
Victor dropped.
Silence.
Nora stared.
Gabriel turned toward her.
“Are you okay?”
She nodded.
“Are you?”
He smiled.
“Ask me tomorrow.”
She laughed through tears.
But the danger wasn't over.
The Blackstone account was still hidden.
And its records revealed something no one expected.
The Moretti family had not created the network.
Someone older had.
A woman named Evelyn Black.
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The woman whose name had been hidden in Gabriel's trust.
And she was still alive.
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