Chapter 6 - The Vanishing Act
Arthur fled the board meeting through the service entrance. He knew they would move to seize his assets within the hour. He reached the safe house where he had left Lily and the children, but the gate was open.
A single black sedan was idling at the curb.
He didn't panic. He moved with the precision of a man who had everything to lose. He knew the tunnels beneath the city, the ones he had helped fund when he was still playing the game.
He entered the underground network, his mind racing. Lily had the ledger. That was the only thing that mattered. If he could find where she had been taken, he could expose the entire house of cards. But to do that, he had to become the very thing he had spent twenty years trying to outrun: a criminal.
He called a number he hadn't dialed in years—a fixer who dealt in information, not stocks.
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"I need to know who took the girl," Arthur demanded.
"The Syndicate, Arthur," the voice replied. "And they're not looking for money. They’re looking for the ledger."
