Chapter 10 - The False Victory
The sudden blackout caused absolute chaos among the armed mercenaries on the pier.
Elias Ward’s heavily armed tactical team used the darkness to breach the shipyard from all sides.
Blinding spotlights from police helicopters suddenly illuminated the docks, trapping everyone.
Federal agents swarmed the pier, disarming the confused mercenaries without a single shot fired.
Grant Maddox screamed in fury as he was thrown to the concrete and handcuffed by the FBI.
Emma stood completely still as two agents gently placed her father in handcuffs and led him away.
Thomas looked back at her with genuine hatred, but Emma refused to break eye contact or shed a single tear.
Elias walked up beside her, wrapping a warm blanket over her shivering shoulders.
"Julian was arrested at the office, and the merger is officially dead," Elias told her softly.
"You saved my company, Emma, and we are going to find my sister together."
Emma looked out over the water, feeling the crushing weight of the last eleven months finally lift from her chest.
She had dismantled a global smuggling ring and finally avenged the children who suffered during her convoy mission.
She felt a profound, absolute sense of victory and closure.
Suddenly, Elias's encrypted satellite phone began to ring with an incoming video call.
Elias answered it, fully expecting an update from the federal agents searching Maddox's properties.
The video connected, showing his missing sister, Rebecca, tied to a wooden chair in a dark, concrete room.
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The camera slowly panned to the right, revealing the true, ultimate mastermind holding the phone.
It was Daniel Pierce, the seemingly harmless floor manager from the restaurant.
