Chapter 112: RESCUE MISSION
The demand arrives at nine the following morning.
Not through the estate's communication system, not through any of the channels the kidnappers should logically have access to given what they know about this family. It arrives through the Morriston operational network's primary board channel, which means whoever sent it has either infiltrated the company's communications infrastructure or has access to credentials that should not exist outside the family's inner circle.
The message is brief. The Morriston inheritance, both the operational archive and Ariana's trust fund, transferred in full within twenty-four hours, in exchange for Marcus alive. The account details provided for the transfer are professionally arranged, routed through seven jurisdictions, the kind of structure that takes months to build and is designed specifically to be untraceable once the money moves.
