Chapter 7 - The Burning Leverage
My mother's arrogant smile instantly vanished as the bright orange flame danced inches from the vital document.
She ordered her heavily armed guards to hold their fire, terrified that a stray bullet would ignite the paper.
I calmly warned her that if she did not deactivate the implant immediately, I would burn her billion-dollar empire to ashes.
She gritted her teeth in pure fury and slowly raised the black master remote in the air.
With a heavy sigh of defeat, she pressed the sequence of buttons to completely disengage the internal explosive.
The blinking red light on Sophie's lower back instantly went dark, and she collapsed to the floor in total exhaustion.
I demanded that my mother toss the remote across the marble floor to prove she could not rearm the device.
She complied angrily, throwing the small plastic controller sliding across the polished stone.
I immediately lowered the lighter and tossed the folded will onto the ground at her feet.
My mother greedily bent down to retrieve the document, her eyes gleaming with absolute triumph.
She unfolded the heavy parchment to inspect the patent codes, but her face suddenly turned pale with shock.
The paper I had given her was absolutely blank, completely devoid of any ink or legal writing.
I had left the real will safely hidden in the glove compartment of the crashed SUV outside.
My mother screamed in absolute rage and ordered her elite mercenaries to execute me where I stood.
Before they could pull their triggers, Elias suddenly emerged from the smoking wreckage of our vehicle.
He was holding a massive, high-powered assault rifle he had stripped from an unconscious guard.
He opened fire directly at the expensive crystal chandelier hanging directly above the guards' heads.
The massive fixture crashed violently to the floor, crushing three mercenaries and plunging the foyer into absolute chaos.
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I sprinted across the room, grabbed Sophie in my arms, and stomped my boot down heavily on the black remote.
The plastic controller shattered into dozens of tiny pieces, but a terrifying alarm suddenly echoed from the broken device.
