Chapter 5 - The Mastermind
The entire dining room plunged into a suffocating, deeply uncomfortable silence once again.
Brooke let out a small, highly confused gasp as she stared at the beautiful woman who had cruelly abandoned her over a decade ago.
Sarah casually brushed some fresh snow off her expensive fur coat, completely ignoring the sheer shock radiating from her daughter.
Daniel staggered backward awkwardly, his sweating face turning an incredibly sickly shade of gray.
"Sarah, what the hell are you doing here tonight?" Daniel demanded frantically.
Sarah smiled wickedly, slowly pulling off her expensive leather driving gloves with highly dramatic elegance.
"I simply came to personally collect the rest of my money, darling," Sarah announced proudly to the entire horrified room.
I crossed my arms tightly, my highly trained analytical mind rapidly connecting the absolute final pieces of the puzzle.
"You are the anonymous offshore account," I stated clearly, stepping firmly forward to completely face the new threat.
Sarah looked me up and down with obvious, highly toxic disdain, clearly unimpressed by my simple dinner dress.
"You must be the incredibly boring little wife who actually thinks she is terribly clever," Sarah mocked loudly.
"Daniel has been reliably wiring me your precious mortgage payments and college funds for nearly six entirely luxurious months."
Brooke stepped forward slowly, her young voice shaking with immense, entirely shattering heartbreak.
"Mom?" Brooke whispered, desperately hoping for a loving, beautiful reunion.
Sarah barely even glanced at her completely traumatized teenage daughter.
"Not right now, kid, the powerful adults are currently handling business," Sarah dismissed her entirely without a shred of guilt.
That single, incredibly cold sentence completely broke any remaining shred of loyalty Brooke had for her biological parents.
Brooke ran directly toward me, burying her crying face deep into my shoulder as she began to sob completely uncontrollably.
I wrapped my arms highly protectively around the young girl, glaring fiercely at the two monsters standing casually in the kitchen.
"You actively helped him completely steal from his own child just to fund your luxury lifestyle?" I asked in pure, undeniable disgust.
Sarah laughed proudly, a high and entirely grating sound that completely filled the silent room.
"Daniel desperately needed a completely untraceable place to hide his stolen corporate funds, and I simply needed a proper allowance," Sarah explained shamelessly.
"But the police are completely already on their way, Sarah," Thomas interjected with a booming, highly authoritative voice.
"If you stay here, you will absolutely be arrested as an active, highly willing accomplice to major corporate embezzlement."
Sarah's arrogant, beautiful smirk completely vanished in an absolute instant.
She glared furiously at Daniel, completely realizing he had entirely botched their incredibly lucrative criminal operation.
"You completely useless, absolutely pathetic idiot!" Sarah screamed fiercely at her former husband.
Daniel lunged desperately toward Sarah, frantically grabbing her fur coat in a state of sheer, undeniable panic.
"You have to entirely take me with you, Sarah, they are definitely going to lock me up!" Daniel pleaded pathetically.
Sarah violently shoved him away, quickly pulling a small silver canister of military-grade pepper spray from her designer purse.
She aggressively sprayed the highly potent chemical directly into Daniel's wide, completely desperate eyes.
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Daniel screamed in absolute, blinding agony, entirely collapsing to the kitchen floor as he wildly clawed at his burning face.
Sarah quickly spun around to entirely escape out the back door, but three heavily armed police officers suddenly burst completely through the entryway with their weapons drawn.
