Chapter 8 - THE LAST TRAP
Gideon arranged the meeting inside an abandoned theater.
He wanted me alone.
I went.
Not because I trusted him.
Because Tobias had secretly placed federal agents around the building.
Gideon stood beneath the stage lights.
He looked older than the photographs.
“You have your father's eyes.”
“You murdered him.”
“I made mistakes.”
“You call murder a mistake?”
He smiled.
“You still don't understand.”
He told me the truth.
The shipyard wasn't worth billions.
The evidence inside it was.
Politicians.
Judges.
Corporate executives.
A network stretching across the East Coast.
My father had discovered it.
Gideon had spent fifteen years destroying everyone connected to it.
Then he looked at me.
“You were the last piece.”
A gunshot sounded.
Garrett collapsed.
I screamed.
Gideon smiled.
But Garrett had been wearing a protective vest.
He stood again.
Federal agents stormed the theater.
Gideon tried to escape.
Tobias tackled him.
For fifteen years, Tobias had pretended to be powerless.
Now the world finally saw who he really was.
Gideon was arrested.
Penelope's son was found alive.
And the empire finally collapsed.
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But there was one problem.
Garrett disappeared.
