Chapter 4 - The Showdown in LisbonWhile Jade Foresight was being processed at the Atlanta federal precinct, six thousand miles away in Lisbon, Portugal, the high-security executive boardroom of the Foresight Maritime Group overlooking the Tagus River was in total, historic chaos.
Sitting at the head of the mahogany conference table was sixty-five-year-old Donald Foresight—Jade’s arrogant, greedy father.
"Where is my daughter?!" Donald thundered into his phone. "She was supposed to land in Lisbon two hours ago!"
BOOM!
The heavy double oak doors of the boardroom were thrown open!
Colton Beckett stepped inside.
He wore an magnificent dark charcoal bespoke tuxedo, his broad six-foot-three frame radiating an untouchable, terrifying authority that dropped the room's temperature to absolute zero.
Behind him stepped four international legal enforcement officers and European federal prosecutors.
Donald Foresight dropped his pen, his jaw sagging open in complete, catatonic horror.
"C-Colton...?!" Donald stammered. "Where... where is Jade?!"
"Jade is currently in federal custody in Atlanta, Donald," Colton announced flatly, his deep baritone falling like blocks of granite onto the table. "And your eighty-five-million-dollar extortion scheme is finished."
European Federal Prosecutor Jean-Luc Vance stepped forward, sliding thick legal notices flat onto the table:
TOTAL CORPORATE SEIZURE: Certified enforcement of the European Maritime Injunction, transferring fifty-one percent controlling equity in Foresight Logistics directly to Lauren Beckett.
ARREST WARRANTS: International warrants served on Donald Foresight for Syndicate Extortion, Interstate Money Laundering, and Maritime Fraud.
Donald fell flat onto his knees behind the table, groveling frantically as officers locked steel handcuffs around his wrists.
"COLTON! PLEASE!" Donald shrieked. "I WILL RETURN THE EIGHTY-FIVE MILLION! DON'T DESTROY MY FAMILY!"
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Colton looked down at Donald Foresight with an absolute, cold, weightless disgust.
"You threatened my wife. You threatened my newborn daughter," Colton whispered, his gray eyes burning with a dark, lethal fire. "And now you will rot in a cage for the rest of your life."
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