Chapter 9 - The Final Desperate Move
Kieran suddenly jerked his shoulder with all his remaining strength, knocking the first detective off balance against a wooden pillar.
He scrambled to his feet, reaching into his inner suit pocket to grab a small black remote controller.
"Nobody move!" Kieran shouted wildly, his eyes bloodshot and unhinged. "I backed up all the firm's encrypted servers onto a cloud drive! If I hit this button, every asset, property deed, and trust account tied to the Morland name will be permanently deleted and frozen in offshore arbitration for twenty years!"
Lena, who was being held near the entrance, yelled out, "Kieran, don't do it! You'll destroy my accounts too!"
"Shut up, Lena!" Kieran screamed. "If I can't have this empire, nobody will! Tess will starve on the streets with her bastards!"
Tess stood unflinching, holding Dany's shoulder as the boy looked up at his mother without a single trace of fear.
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"Press it, Kieran," Tess said with a cold, terrifying calmness.
👉 Why was Tess so confident that Kieran's extortion threat wouldn't work?
