Chapter 4 - The Race Against TimeArthur burst through the front doors.
Rain struck his face.
His hands were shaking as he carried Leo toward the Lincoln Navigator.
The boy's skin had turned pale.
His breathing was shallow.
Arthur placed him in the passenger seat and started the engine.
Behind him, Julian appeared beneath the mansion's stone entrance.
He wasn't running.
He wasn't panicking.
He was watching.
Arthur looked at him through the rain.
Then his phone rang.
Julian.
Arthur answered through the Bluetooth system.
"Pull over," Julian said.
Arthur's jaw tightened.
"You wanted me dead."
Silence.
Then Julian sighed.
"Arthur, you were supposed to die quietly."
Arthur gripped the steering wheel.
"Who hired you?"
Another pause.
Then Julian spoke.
"Your daughter."
Arthur nearly lost control of the vehicle.
"Elise?"
"She couldn't wait forever."
Arthur felt something inside him collapse.
His own daughter.
The woman who had once held Leo as a baby.
The woman who had stood beside Arthur after her brother's funeral.
She had wanted the inheritance.
And now she was willing to kill her father and her nephew to get it.
Leo moaned.
Arthur pressed harder on the accelerator.
"You're going to prison."
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Julian's voice became colder.
"Only if you reach the hospital."
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