Chapter 8 - THE TRAP IS SET
Two days later, the news cycle was dominated by a frantic Vanessa. She held a tearful press conference outside Caldwell Manor, claiming that the deranged housekeeper had kidnapped her fiancé and his son. The police were searching the entire eastern seaboard.
Inside the cabin, Ethan was busy making calls to his most trusted board members and private investigators. He had the assassin's phone. He had the wire transfers Vanessa had foolishly routed through a shell company in the Cayman Islands.
"She thinks she's won," Ethan said, his eyes dark with vengeance as he looked at the TV screen showing Vanessa's weeping face. "She's holding an emergency shareholder meeting tomorrow to take control of my company in my absence. That's exactly where we are going to end this."
