My Uncle Dan Sentenced Me To A Failing Waste Facility And Stole My Inheritance — So I Uncovered His Darkest Secret.
Part 2
I watched the black town car pull up to the loading bay.
Heather stepped out onto the cracked asphalt.
She wore the same designer heels she had on the day she threw my ring in my face.
You are still alive.
She sounded disappointed.
I knew you would end in dirt.
Looks like the mud fits you.
If you are here to tax me, do it inside.
Special levy.
New Frontier veins.
That is not a tax.
That is a seizure.
I am not the slave you came to squeeze.
I am the man this division cannot afford to lose.
You know it.
Where did you get that leverage?
That depends.
If the records stand, the procedure must be completed.
Sign the paperwork.
Corporate law applies here too, Heather.
At least on paper, this facility is mine now.
Things were not that simple back then.
You had no power.
No protection.
Staying beside you meant dying with you.
So you chose the stronger side.
I chose survival.
No.
You chose the winner.
No one forced you to humiliate me.
No one forced you to throw the ring on the floor.
Tyler, you didn’t lose a crown.
You threw it away.
The tax team isn’t the only one here.
A tactical IT unit moved quietly behind her.
They were armed.
Searching the underground servers.
This wasn’t a standard audit.
Then what is it?
A key to the master database.
Go now.
We move tonight.
Three years sealed.
Nobody sane comes back from the lower archives.
Left, third shaft.
You trust that voice?
Tonight I do.
You didn’t learn that.
His bloodline did.
That is not a corrupted fragment.
It was buried on purpose.
I know this.
It was yours.
No one touches the sealed core.
At last, you have grown.
Pity you are still alive.
You were never weak.
You were emptied piece by piece.
Who did the late CEO see last?
Not Dan.
You.
Don’t let him lead.
Touch the terminal.
Kneel.
No.
I had a job.
What was it?
Every fragment you reclaim costs you yourself.
That only opens for you.
He knew.
Knew what?
That they would purge the board.
That Tyler would be stripped and exiled.
The boardroom rebellion.
The old alliances.
A chain of command.
Tyler is not a parasite.
He is the living vessel of the inheritance contract.
We publish it now.
And hand Dan the time to kill every witness?
Craig is right about one thing.
We use it.
Megan is right about the rest.
Not yet.
Who is there?
If you keep arguing, the cave-in will decide for you.
How much did you hear?
Enough.
I know how Dan came out of my father’s hospital room that night.
I wasn’t supposed to be in that corridor.
I saw the head of security first.
His sleeve had blood on it.
Then Dan came out.
His hand was bloody too.
And you said nothing?
If I had spoken, my career would have died first.
I believe you saw it.
I don’t believe that excuses what you became after.
You don’t believe me at all.
I believe you love winning.
Not truth.
Not me.
There is an old black-market data broker in the city.
He moved the secret corporate files no one wanted on record.
We go to the capital now.
If he is alive, he fills the gap in the code.
Then we move fast.
The supply line is cut.
Three depots are gone.
The digital roads are sealed.
He started hunting all of you.
By order of the acting CEO.
Anyone tied to Tyler Everton is to be seized.
Public proclamation of corporate treason.
He finally stopped pretending.
From here on, names get you killed.
You are not Tyler.
You are cargo with a massive bounty.
And if this goes bad, what happens when I bury the entire network?
