Chapter 7 - The Explosive Threat
The entire boardroom instantly plunged into a tense, highly suffocating silence following the terrifying announcement.
My father aggressively grabbed Derek by his bloodstained collar and violently slammed his head against the floor.
He completely demanded to know exactly where the explosive device was hidden inside the family estate.
Derek smiled a wicked, bloody smile and completely refused to answer the desperate question.
He proudly gloated that he had hired a professional mercenary to plant the device early this morning.
He explicitly stated that the bomb was set to detonate in exactly thirty minutes unless I agreed to let him walk free.
My heart raced rapidly as I thought about the completely innocent staff members currently working inside the sprawling mansion.
I quickly grabbed my father's arm and told him we needed to order an immediate evacuation of the entire property.
The chief of security quickly spoke into his tactical radio, initiating the strict emergency protocols for the estate.
My father fiercely glared at Derek and promised to drag him behind a truck if anyone suffered a single scratch.
I looked closely at Derek's arrogant expression and noticed a tiny bead of nervous sweat rolling down his temple.
I suddenly realized he was entirely bluffing about hiring a highly skilled, professional mercenary.
Derek was notoriously cheap and incredibly lazy, completely incapable of orchestrating a highly complex terror plot.
I demanded to see Derek's confiscated cell phone, which one of the security guards quickly handed to me.
I easily bypassed his simple passcode by entering his own birthday, a true testament to his sheer narcissism.
I opened his recent text messages and found a bizarre text thread with a shady, low-level courier service.
Derek had merely hired a cheap delivery driver to drop off a highly suspicious package at the front gates.
The package was entirely fake, specifically designed only to cause widespread panic and buy him time to escape.
I showed the text messages to my father, who immediately let out a deep sigh of overwhelming relief.
The chief of security officially confirmed over the radio that the suspicious box had been safely inspected and contained only bricks.
Derek's face entirely drained of all color as his ultimate, desperate master plan completely fell apart in seconds.
He began sobbing pathetically once again, finally realizing he had absolutely zero leverage left to use.
I walked gracefully over to the large glass windows and looked out at the rainy, sprawling city skyline.
I told Derek that his endless lies and cruel manipulations had finally reached their absolute end.
The police sirens wailed loudly in the distance, rapidly approaching our massive corporate skyscraper.
My father had already contacted the federal authorities to arrest Derek for corporate embezzlement and attempted murder.
Derek frantically thrashed against the heavy zip ties, completely terrified of spending his entire life in a prison cell.
He desperately screamed that he knew a massive, incredibly dark secret about my father's hidden past.
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He actively claimed Chloe had discovered highly classified files completely hidden on the company servers.
Derek yelled that my father was completely responsible for the tragic death of my mother twenty years ago.
