Chapter 9 - Kane Kidnapped Emily Again—But This Time My Sister Refused to Be His VictimWe were too late.
Kane had taken Emily.
He left a message.
Bring the ledger. Come alone.
I knew better.
But Emily knew Kane better.
She didn't wait for rescue.
She fought.
She broke a chair.
She injured one of his guards.
She escaped through a storage corridor.
When we arrived, she had already gotten outside.
Marcus found her near the highway.
She was bruised.
Terrified.
But alive.
I held her.
She whispered:
“I didn't freeze this time.”
I smiled.
“No.”
“You taught me not to.”
“I taught you nothing.”
She looked at me.
“You reminded me who I was.”
That sentence stayed with me.
We finally understood Kane's weakness.
He needed people to believe they were powerless.
The moment they stopped believing that...
he lost control.
We used the ledger to expose him publicly.
News organizations received documents.
Federal investigators received evidence.
Financial institutions froze his accounts.
His allies abandoned him.
Within forty-eight hours, Kane had lost most of his empire.
But he disappeared.
Then we found a final message.
Meet me where your parents died.
The old highway.
The same place.
The same road.
The place where I had lost everything.
This time, I wouldn't arrive as a frightened seventeen-year-old boy.
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I would arrive as Daniel Mercer.
And Kane would finally understand what he had created.
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