Chapter 15 - The Parisian Escape
The mercenaries shouted violently in the pitch-black room, completely blinded by the sudden darkness and the heavy torrent of freezing water from the ceiling sprinklers.
I moved with absolute, fluid precision, relying entirely on the rigorous muscle memory from my father's elite combat training.
I delivered a devastating strike to the throat of the nearest guard, instantly dropping him to the flooded marble floor.
Eleanor screamed furiously in the dark, explicitly ordering her men to shoot blindly in my general direction.
Bullets shattered the expensive crystal chandelier and completely destroyed the antique artwork on the walls.
I grabbed Derek tightly by his silk collar and used his thrashing, cowardly body as a human shield to navigate through the chaotic crossfire.
He wailed in sheer agony as a stray bullet grazed his shoulder.
Chloe burst through the side service doors wearing thermal goggles, aggressively laying down suppressive fire with a compact submachine gun.
She grabbed my arm, and we violently threw Derek's bleeding body to the floor, leaving him entirely to the mercy of my mother's panicked guards.
We sprinted down the flooded service corridor, bursting through the heavy kitchen doors and out into the freezing Parisian night.
Sirens began to wail loudly in the distance as the French municipal police finally responded to the massive security breach.
We sprinted across the muddy lawn and vaulted over the rear stone wall, landing heavily in the wet dirt just outside the perimeter.
We piled frantically into our waiting armored SUV.
I slammed the engine into gear and aggressively tore down the narrow mountain road, leaving the chaotic, burning chateau far behind us.
As we sped toward the private airstrip, Chloe's encrypted laptop began to blare a terrifying red warning signal.
She furiously typed on the keyboard, her face turning completely pale in the glowing light of the screen.
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She looked up at me with absolute dread and reported that Eleanor had just initiated a massive, hostile cyber-attack directly against Sterling Enterprises' global servers.
My mother was actively trying to bankrupt my father's entire empire while we were trapped on the other side of the world.
