All Chapters of THE LAST DAY OF MERCY: Chapter 31
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33 chapters
CH 31
Victoria lay awake in her expansive bedroom, watching the early morning shadows stretch across the ceiling as her phone began to vibrate violently on the nightstand. She snatched the device up, her heart giving a sudden, anxious thud when she saw Derek’s name flashing frantically across the screen."Victoria! You have to listen to me right now!" Derek’s voice screamed through the speaker, trembling so violently he could barely articulate his words. "Everything went wrong! The shipping yard is a bloodbath!"Victoria sat up instantly, her fingers tightening around the phone as a cold wave of anxiety washed through her chest. "Derek, calm down! What happened to the titanium container? Did your security team secure the asset?""They're all gone!" Derek shrieked, his breath coming in short, ragged gaps on the other end of the line. "My business associates at the port were completely wiped out! They were brutally attacked by a rival mafia boss the underworld calls the Obsidian Ghost!"Victo
CH 32
The armored vehicle pulled smoothly into the morning traffic, the final trap locked and loaded as the countdown rushed toward zero.Tuesday morning arrived, bringing exactly forty-eight hours left until the final expiration of the six-year ancestral promise. The air inside the sprawling concrete metropolis felt increasingly heavy, carrying the invisible weight of an empire about to shift its axis.Lucas Reed walked calmly into the gleaming central offices of Sterling Corp, his broad shoulders slightly hunched beneath his faded delivery jacket. He carried a heavy, insulated catering container, moving under the simple guise of delivering a premium breakfast order for the board of directors.Upstairs, on the executive penthouse floor, Vivian Ashford was currently hosting a high-level emergency meeting with the company's remaining shareholders. She paced the front of the room, her fingers tightly gripping a gold-leaf presentation pointer as she tried to force a vote."We need to finalize
CH 33
The steel elevator cage descended straight into the heart of the darkness, leaving the chaotic boardroom upstairs to face its imminent doom.Within ten minutes of the devastating shipping crisis hitting the terminal networks, Sterling Corp’s primary stock index plummeted by a catastrophic thirty percent. The digital trading boards inside the executive suite turned into a bloodbath of flashing crimson numbers, wiping out decades of prestige in a matter of moments.Vivian Ashford stood in the center of the panicked bullpen, her hands clawing aggressively at her throat as she screamed at Thomas Wright. "Find a legal loophole right now, Thomas! I don't care who you have to bribe! Reverse that border detention before the national media catches the story!"Thomas Wright shoved his trembling hands into his tailored pockets, his face completely pale white as a cold sweat soaked through his shirt. "There is no legal loophole, Vivian! I’ve run the clearance tokens through every judicial routing