Chapter 9 - Reckoning at Ashford Tower
I arrived at the headquarters within thirty minutes of the lockdown. Walking through the lobby where my sons had first appeared just a week prior, I found Julian Vance on his knees, restrained by my guards amid a dozen captured mercenaries. Julian sneered, taunting me about my weakness and my dead lover. I didn't raise my voice or lose my temper; with cold, absolute authority, I stripped him of his territory, his money, and his freedom, handing him over to federal authorities on airtight RICO charges while ensuring his Russian allies were shipped back to Siberia in crates. The threat to my family was permanently erased.
