At ten that morning we watched Draper take his podium on the wall monitors, smug and rehearsed.
“Today we expose a family that believes itself above the law,” he announced.
Before he could raise his forged documents, the screens behind him hijacked his own feed — his text logs with Cassius Salinas, his orders to frame Lionel, the full trail out of Sable Capital.
Leland had secured a court order for an intermediary firm’s servers, and one of Draper’s own terrified IT directors had handed over the backups to save himself.
Draper bolted for a side door.
Federal agents were already standing in it.
Chapter 14 — The Panic They Wanted
His arrest didn’t end the war.
Hours later a cyberattack hit our central data center — orders froze, suppliers couldn’t confirm transfers, and our stock dropped eighteen percent before noon while an anonymous buyer began scooping up the floating shares, as though someone had planned for exactly this panic.
The board wanted to sell off our real estate to survive.