Chapter 4 - The Stolen Drive
Camille stumbled back against the mahogany sideboard, her hands trembling violently.
“I... I don't know what you’re talking about!” Camille lied, her voice rising into an octave of sheer hysteria. “I never went near your private study!”
“Three hours ago, you transferred thirty gigabytes of proprietary research data from my server onto a private cloud server owned by your father, Richard Vance,” Gabriel stated, stepping closer to her with terrifying, calm dominance.
Camille’s mind spun out of control. She had done the transfer at 2:00 AM while Gabriel was supposed to be asleep in his suite. She had used a master bypass key given to her by her father.
How could he possibly know?
“You thought you were playing me, Camille,” Gabriel said, his dark eyes narrowing into slits of pure ice. “You thought by marrying me, your family could absorb Moretti Tech and cover up the $100 million fraud at Vance Pharmaceuticals.”
“That’s a lie!” Camille shrieked, tears ruining her heavy eye makeup. “My father is a respected businessman! He’s a philanthropist!”
Just then, the heavy double doors of the dining room swung open.
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Three federal officers from the Securities and Exchange Commission walked in, escorted by Gabriel’s chief legal advisor.
👉 “Richard Vance was arrested twenty minutes ago at the international airport, Miss Vance,” the lead agent announced sternly.
