Adrian roared in fury. He lunged across the mahogany table toward his mother, his face twisted in vicious rage. “Shut up, you stupid old woman! You needed the money to pay off your secret mortgages!”
“Enough.”
The single word from Victor Holloway was not loud, but it possessed the absolute, crushing gravity of a collapsing star.
Adrian froze mid-lunge. Elaine snapped her mouth shut, hyperventilating.
Victor slowly stood up. He leaned his heavy knuckles on the mahogany table. The sheer magnitude of his wealth and his fury silenced the screaming relatives instantly. He looked at the family he had built, the bloodline he had funded, and realized they were nothing but a collection of venomous, pathetic parasites.
He issued a command that would erase them from high society forever.
Chapter 4: The Annihilation
“You starved my great-grandson,” Victor whispered.
The quietness of his voice made the statement infinitely more terrifying. He looked at Elaine, Adrian, Patricia, and Celeste with sheer, unadulterated disgust. To a self-made billionaire who worshipped legacy, the theft of his money was a severe offense. But the physical deprivation of his bloodline, the weaponization of poverty against a newborn, was an unforgivable, capital crime.
Victor turned his gaze to his lead attorney, Mr. Roth.
