Chapter 22 - The Viper in the Boardroom
I spent the next forty-eight hours ruthlessly hunting the source of the digital leak.
Our elite hackers traced the origin of the sophisticated attack directly back to a server inside our own building.
The enemy was not hiding in the shadows of the criminal underworld anymore.
They were sitting in the expensive, tailored suits of our newly formed corporate executive board.
I called an emergency meeting at midnight, forcing all twelve of our top executives to attend without exception.
I walked into the dimly lit boardroom wearing a sharp white suit and a cold, merciless expression.
Enzo stood silently by the only exit, his massive frame blocking any hope of escape.
I threw a thick file containing the digital trace logs directly onto the center of the table.
I slowly circled the terrified executives, letting the heavy silence break their fragile nerves.
I informed them that someone in this room had sold their soul to a ghost.
A senior vice president named Marcus began to sweat profusely, his eyes darting nervously toward the locked door.
I stopped directly behind his leather chair, leaning down to whisper softly into his ear.
I asked him exactly how much money it cost to betray the woman who built this company.
Marcus panicked completely, screaming that he had no choice because a man named Victor Thorne was holding his family hostage.
The name hit the room like a physical shockwave, draining the color from Enzo's face.
Victor Thorne was supposedly killed twenty years ago during the bloody war that put Alessandro on the throne.
He was a ghost who had waited two decades in the dark to exact his flawless revenge.
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I ordered Enzo to secure Marcus and extract every single detail about Victor's location.
The legitimate corporate world was about to witness exactly how a mafia queen handles treason.
