Chapter 9 - The Decoy's Masterpiece
Harrison frowned, pulling his smartphone from his jacket pocket with sudden hesitation.
He opened the school's live broadcast application, expecting to see the video of the boiler room.
Instead, the screen was displaying high-resolution, perfectly clear photographs of every single page of the ledger.
"What is this?" Harrison demanded, his voice trembling with genuine panic.
"The book you just burned was a prop I bought at a vintage bookstore," Caleb explained with a cold grin.
"Chloe didn't give me a decoy USB drive; she uploaded the real files to a ten-minute delay server."
Caleb revealed that he had anticipated Harrison intercepting their communications.
While Harrison was busy setting up his dramatic hostage trap, Chloe had successfully bypassed the entire network from outside the building.
The real ledger was currently being projected to every news station, police department, and federal agency in the state.
Harrison realized his local police connections could not protect him from a massive federal investigation.
His face contorted into a mask of pure, murderous rage.
He pulled a loaded handgun from his waistband and aimed it directly at Caleb's chest.
"If my life is over, then yours ends right now," Harrison snarled, his finger tightening on the trigger.
Caleb stood his ground, refusing to show any fear to the man who had tormented so many.
"Drop the weapon, Harrison!" a loud, authoritative voice boomed from the boiler room entrance.
Malik stood in the doorway, holding the heavy wooden ruler Harrison had used to beat him.
Before Harrison could turn his gun toward the new threat, Malik threw the ruler with incredible force.
The solid wood struck Harrison squarely in the wrist, causing the gun to fire wildly into the ceiling.
Marcus used the distraction to break his loosened restraints, tackling the teacher to the concrete floor.
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The two brothers pinned the violent man down just as the heavy doors burst wide open.
A dozen heavily armed FBI agents flooded the boiler room, their laser sights aimed directly at Harrison.
