Chapter 7 - The Ransom of Silence
"Step away from my son," Sarah screamed, her hands shaking violently around the gun.
Arthur slowly turned to face her, looking more annoyed than actually frightened.
"Ah, the gold digger finally decides to show her face," Arthur mocked smoothly.
The two massive bodyguards instantly raised their own weapons, pointing them directly at Sarah's chest.
"Mom, please don't do this!" Marcus yelled, dropping the pen and standing up quickly.
"He killed your father, Marcus!" Sarah cried out, tears streaming down her pale face.
"I heard everything he just admitted to you."
She had secretly followed David's car to the diner and had been listening through the cracked back door.
"You cut his brakes because you knew he was coming to marry me," Sarah accused Arthur.
"Prove it," Arthur challenged her, a wicked, confident smirk playing on his lips.
"All the physical evidence from that crash was destroyed eighteen years ago."
Sarah's finger twitched dangerously on the trigger of the heavy pistol.
Chloe realized with terrifying clarity that Sarah was completely ready to throw her life away to get revenge.
David slowly raised his hands and took a cautious step toward the angry woman.
"Sarah, if you shoot him, his men will kill you right here in front of your son," David pleaded softly.
"I don't care anymore, David," she sobbed, keeping her eyes locked on the old man.
"We have been running and hiding from this monster for eighteen years."
While Arthur was busy mocking Sarah, David slowly reached his hand into his jacket pocket.
He blindly pressed the buttons on his phone, navigating by pure memory to activate the voice recorder app.
"You really think a jury will believe a poor, desperate woman over a respected billionaire?" Arthur laughed.
"I paid the mechanic fifty thousand dollars in cash to cut that brake line, and he is long dead now."
"No one can touch me, Sarah, so you might as well put the toy gun away."
David successfully hit record, capturing Arthur's arrogant confession perfectly.
Sarah gritted her teeth and closed one eye, preparing to pull the heavy trigger.
Arthur's lead bodyguard realized she was actually going to shoot.
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The bodyguard suddenly shifted his aim away from Sarah and pointed his gun directly at Chloe's head.
"Drop the gun, lady, or the girl dies," the bodyguard shouted firmly.
