Chapter 6 - Confrontation on Floor 14
"You're a monster," David said, taking slow, deliberate steps down the corridor. "She was your sister-in-law. She trusted you. I trusted you!"
Julian’s smile vanished, replaced by a bitter, dark sneer. "You trusted me? You made me Chief Medical Officer while you and Elena took all the credit! You built Sterling Dynamics on our family name, but Elena held ninety percent of the patent rights! When I asked for a seat on the executive board, she denied me!"
"Because she knew you were selling illegal medical data on the dark web!" David shouted back. "She protected this company from your corruption!"
"She ruined my ambition!" Julian screamed, his composure finally snapping. "So I staged the boat accident! I saved her life just enough to keep her brain active, using our neural-regen technology to keep her in a medically induced coma. For four years, I've used her biometric signatures to slowly siphon off her shares into offshore accounts!"
Julian pointed at Sarah. "And when I needed physical access to the underground vault, I hired that pathetic accountant, had her surgically grafted with Elena's skin print, and sent her right into your bed! You were so blinded by grief that you didn't even notice!"
Sarah hung her head, weeping silently behind David.
"It's over, Julian," David said quietly. "The police are already surrounding the building. The DA has issued a federal warrant for your arrest. Hand over the vault access keys."
Julian chuckled darkly, reaching into his coat pocket. "It's never over, brother."
Instead of pulling out a key, Julian pulled out a remote detonator.
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"This floor is rigged with thermite charges," Julian sneered, his finger hovering over the red button. "If I press this button, the entire bio-lab burns to ash in thirty seconds—including Elena, who is sitting in cryogenic pod 4 inside that vault. Give me Sarah, let me take the elevator to the helipad, or we all burn together!"
David froze. The breath left his lungs as he looked at the steel vault door behind Julian. His wife—the love of his life—was trapped inside a pod on the other side of that wall, seconds away from being consumed by fire.
