Chapter 2 - The Silent WeaponArthur raised the bat higher.
“I said move.”
Sophie slowly stood.
Her hands were trembling, but her eyes were not.
“You think this house belongs to you, Dad?”
Arthur hesitated.
Nobody spoke to him that way.
“You built this life on lies,” Sophie continued. “The offshore accounts. The Pacific merger. The money you took from your employees’ pension funds to cover your gambling debts.”
Arthur’s expression hardened.
“You're a child.”
“I know your secondary laptop password.”
The bat suddenly seemed heavier in his hand.
Sophie had discovered the password months earlier while using the family computer for homework. Arthur had been so confident in his own superiority that he had never imagined his daughter might investigate him.
“I copied everything,” she said.
Arthur's face drained of color.
“You wouldn't.”
“I already did.”
Sophie touched her smartwatch.
“The files are scheduled to go to the SEC, the District Attorney, and the press.”
Silence swallowed the hallway.
Then the bat slipped from Arthur's hand.
It struck the marble with a brutal metallic crack.
Clara slowly rose behind Sophie.
For the first time in years, mother and daughter stood together.
Arthur looked from one to the other.
He finally understood.
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His greatest weakness had never been his enemies.
It had been the people he believed were too powerless to fight back.
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