Chapter 4 - The Dark Discovery
The chilling sound of my father's laughter faded, leaving me trapped in the freezing server room.
He had completely disabled the internal elevator and cut the main power lines to the basement floor.
I was standing in absolute darkness, surrounded only by the blinking green lights of the massive computer towers.
I refused to let my daughter grow up without a father.
I pulled out my cell phone and turned on the bright flashlight application.
Because I had personally supervised the construction of this building years ago, I knew every single hidden architectural flaw.
I stacked three heavy server boxes on top of each other to reach the overhead ventilation shaft.
I used a pocketknife to quickly unscrew the metal grate and pulled myself up into the dusty air duct.
I crawled through the incredibly tight and suffocating space for over twenty minutes.
My suit was completely ruined, and my hands were bleeding from the sharp metal edges.
I finally reached the ventilation grate positioned directly above my father's private executive office.
I carefully kicked the grate open and dropped down onto his expensive Persian rug.
The office was empty, but his personal vault was left slightly open in his rush to trap me downstairs.
I pulled open the heavy steel door of the safe and found the physical ledger containing all of his illegal transactions.
I also found a separate legal document that made my heart completely stop beating.
It was a bank statement linked to the private college trust fund I had established for Josephine years ago.
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My father had somehow gained access to her highly secure account.
The document clearly showed that the entire balance of her trust fund had been completely drained.
