Marcus broke the surface of the water, gasping for air as he dragged himself up onto the wet marble edge of the pool.
Sophia was backed against the glass patio doors of the villa, her handbag clutched to her chest, her body shaking as she looked around for the estate driveway.
"Call 911!" Marcus roared at the estate butler, who had rushed out onto the terrace after hearing the commotion. "Get a heavy crowbar from the maintenance garage! NOW!"
"Marcus... please, let me explain," Sophia whimpered, taking a step backward toward the side gate. "You don't know what they were going to do to your company! I was trying to protect you!"
"Protect me?!" Marcus bellowed, standing up, dripping wet, his white shirt sticking to his frame as he marched toward her. "My sister didn't die four years ago in a boat accident, did she?! She’s been kept in the foundation vault beneath this house!"
To understand how Elena Bennett—Marcus's sister and co-inheritor of Bennett Global Logistics—had vanished four years ago, one had to understand the ruthless corporate war between Bennett Global and Vance International.