Chapter 6 - The Hostage Standoff
The police chief ordered Miranda's brother to drop his weapon immediately.
The corrupt cop looked frantically between the chief, Elias, and his bleeding sister.
He slowly lowered his gun, realizing he was completely outnumbered and outranked.
Elias walked forward and kicked the weapon across the floor.
Miranda screamed that Elias was a dangerous criminal who had brainwashed the chief.
The police chief pulled out a digital audio recorder from his tactical vest.
He pressed play, and Miranda's brother's voice filled the room.
The recording was a phone call where the brother admitted to staging my grandfather's arrest.
Elias had demanded a single phone call at the station and used it to contact his old friend, the chief.
The chief placed Miranda's brother in heavy handcuffs and forced him onto the couch.
Elias turned his furious gaze toward my stepmother.
He told her that he knew all about the life insurance policies hidden in the basement.
Miranda's brother suddenly looked up, his expression shifting from anger to complete confusion.
He asked Elias what life insurance policies he was talking about.
Elias tossed the black ledger and the insurance papers onto the coffee table.
The corrupt cop read the papers and realized the total payout was over two million dollars.
He looked at his sister with a twisted expression of absolute betrayal.
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Miranda had promised to split a meager fifty thousand dollars with him for his help.
She never intended to share the millions she planned to steal over our dead bodies.
