Chapter 4 - The House of Cards Crumbles"When you try to take a life, prepare to pay with your own soul."
Emergency alarms blared inside the Intensive Care Unit.
"Defibrillator! Charge to 200!" the chief surgeon shouted.
Marcus crashed into the room, watching in horror as doctors shocked Khloe's heart. "No! Khloe! Fight! Please, fight for our baby!"
On the third shock, a faint rhythm returned to the heart monitor. Beep... beep... beep.
"We stabilized her," the doctor gasped, wiping sweat from his forehead. "And miraculously... the baby has a heartbeat. But she is in a medically induced coma. The next 48 hours will decide everything."
While Marcus stayed at Khloe's bedside, Alexander initiated Phase Two of the retaliation.
Within three hours:
Rossi Logistics was audited by federal tax authorities; illegal smuggling routes were exposed, shutting down all operations.
Isabella's social media accounts were seized by court order, exposing months of direct messages planning how to eliminate Khloe.
The Rossi family assets were frozen under federal racketeering charges.
By afternoon, the once-glamourous Rossi family went from billionaires to bankrupt criminal defendants.
However, Marcus was focused on the mysterious text message he had received earlier. He ran a forensic scan on the encrypted number. The digital footprint led directly to the executive boardroom of his own company: Thorne Enterprises.
Marcus opened his private laptop and pulled up the financial records of his half-brother, Julian Thorne.
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What he found made his blood run cold.
CHAPTER HOOK: Julian had transferred $50 million to Isabella’s secret Swiss account forty-eight hours before the gala.
