Chapter 10 - BRACELETS OF STEEL

"Security," Arthur said, his voice slicing through the chaotic eruption of camera flashes and screaming reporters. "Lock the doors." The NYPD, coordinated in secret by Arthur, flooded the conference room. Vanessa shrieked as cold steel handcuffs snapped around her wrists, her pristine image ruined forever on live television. Richard tried to run but was tackled into a glass display case by Arthur’s head of security. Arthur stood completely still, watching the people who had destroyed his family get dragged away, finally feeling the crushing weight of the last eighteen years lift from his shoulders.