Chapter 23 - THE PROTOCOL OF THE FIVE KEYS
Back at the estate, Derek—now operating in the open as the sole legal guardian of the trust—gathers the remaining inner circle in the basement war room. He reveals the true purpose of the house’s massive architecture: it was never built as a residential home, but as a physical vault housing the "Five Keys"—biometric access drives containing decades of black-market leverage over world leaders. To fully activate the network and secure total immunity, all five bloodline descendants must scan their retinas simultaneously. But as Derek steps up to the scanner, the security system blares a crimson warning: Bloodline match failed. Subject Derek is not a biological child of the patriarch.
