Chapter 5 - The Collapse
The gala turned into a frenzy. The authorities didn't storm the building with sirens; they arrived with quiet efficiency, led by agents who had been tracking Project Lazarus for months.
Elena stood her ground, her composure never faltering even as her empire crumbled around her. She looked at me, not with hate, but with a strange, dark respect. "You were always smarter than Marcus, Liam. You just never had the ambition to use it."
She was escorted out, her hands cuffed behind her back, her face a mask of cold indifference as the cameras flashed. The company stocks plummeted, and the news cycle exploded with the details of the corruption.
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I ran to the hospital. Maya was in recovery. The surgery had been a success, paid for by the very woman who had tried to exploit her. I sat by my daughter’s bed, watching her steady breathing, wondering if the blood on my hands would ever wash off. I had saved her, but I had destroyed the world she was going to grow up in.
Marcus was apprehended in a small town in Europe, his secrets finally laid bare by the very files I had unlocked.
