Chapter 5 - The Twisted Partnership
Ethan gently laid Sarah down on the marble steps and stood up to shield her.
He stared down the barrel of David's gun, his mind racing for any possible way out of this nightmare.
David laughed and explained that he had been secretly draining the company accounts for five long years.
He knew an audit was coming soon, so he hired Vanessa to destroy Nathan's marriage and create a massive distraction.
The fake pregnancy was simply a theatrical smoke screen to hide the greatest corporate theft in history.
Vanessa stepped forward, twirling the sharp kitchen knife with a terrifyingly calm expression.
She stated that she had grown tired of just playing the pregnant mistress for money.
She wanted to completely erase Sarah and take over this beautiful, luxurious life for herself.
Ethan slowly reached his hand into his back pocket, gripping the heavy silver safety pin he still carried.
He asked David where Nathan was, hoping to stall for just a few more seconds.
David smirked and replied that Nathan was currently unconscious in the basement vault, waiting to take the blame for the missing funds.
The plan was to frame Nathan for murdering his own family in a desperate, crazed murder-suicide plot.
Sarah suddenly groaned and shifted on the stairs behind Ethan, drawing Vanessa's cruel attention.
Vanessa lunged forward up the marble steps, raising the sharp knife to silence Sarah forever.
Ethan did not hesitate.
He dodged the knife and drove the thick safety pin directly into a sensitive nerve cluster on Vanessa's wrist.
She screamed in absolute agony, dropping the weapon as her hand went completely numb.
Ethan kicked the knife down the stairs and aggressively tackled David before the lawyer could aim his gun.
The two men crashed violently onto the hard marble floor, grappling fiercely for control of the weapon.
The gun fired loudly into the ceiling, sending a shower of plaster raining down on them.
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Suddenly, a loud, heavy metallic groaning echoed from beneath their feet.
The massive steel doors of the basement vault had just been blown completely off their hinges.
