Chapter 5 - The Stepmother's Trap
The stepmother, Vivian, smiled beautifully as she held the precious antidote up to the dim, flickering emergency lights.
"I knew the street rat would eventually lead us directly to the missing formula," Vivian mocked with pure, absolute cruelty.
The girl realized with utter horror that her stepmother was deeply and actively involved in the massive conspiracy to destroy her life.
"You happily helped my father orchestrate the car crash," the girl accused, her voice shaking with intense, burning rage.
Vivian laughed a cold, heartless laugh that echoed incredibly loudly across the empty marble bank lobby.
"Your father is a pathetic coward who simply followed my brilliant instructions to entirely secure the family inheritance," Vivian confessed proudly.
She explained that the girl's biological mother had legally left the entire corporate empire exclusively to her daughter in a hidden will.
Vivian desperately needed the girl permanently incapacitated so she could legally and completely control the massive fortune as her sole guardian.
"Now that you have unfortunately discovered the truth, maintaining this charade is no longer necessary or profitable," Vivian stated coldly.
She maliciously signaled to the dark shadows of the bank, and four heavily armed assassins completely stepped into the bright moonlight.
Leo instinctively stepped perfectly in front of the girl, perfectly shielding her fragile body from the incoming, deadly threat.
"I will absolutely never let you hurt her again," Leo roared, pulling a small, rusted pocket knife from his torn pants.
Vivian aggressively rolled her eyes at his pathetic weapon and quickly ordered the assassins to execute them both immediately.
Before the armed men could physically pull their heavy triggers, a massive explosion violently shattered the bank's massive glass ceiling.
Thick, blinding smoke bombs rained aggressively down upon the marble floor, completely filling the room with an impenetrable white fog.
A mysterious group of highly trained operatives dressed in advanced tactical gear repelled rapidly down from the broken skylight.
They aggressively engaged Vivian's assassins in a brutal, highly coordinated firefight directly within the thick, blinding smoke.
Leo grabbed the girl's hand and expertly used the absolute chaos to sprint directly toward the distracted Vivian.
He violently tackled the evil stepmother to the hard ground, aggressively wrestling the small glass vial from her perfectly manicured hands.
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Vivian screamed in pure fury and completely pulled a hidden, deadly pistol from her expensive designer coat.
She aggressively aimed the heavy weapon directly at the girl's chest and violently pulled the metal trigger without any hesitation.
