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Chapter 12: Justice Unleashed**

The second guard drew a weapon, but Julian deflected the barrel upward, driving a devastating knee into the man’s solar plexus, knocking him cold.

Raymond stumbled backward in absolute terror, clawing at the wall behind him. "You... you faked it! All of it! The doctors said—"

"The doctors took your bribes, but they weren't the only ones playing the game," Julian growled, stepping toward his uncle. "I watched you plunder my father's legacy. I watched you poison my body. And worst of all, you tried to harm Clara."

Julian grabbed Raymond by the collar of his designer tuxedo, slamming him against the library doorway.

"Please, Julian! We’re family!" Raymond whimpered, shaking violently. "Your father would want mercy!"

"My father is dead because of you," Julian replied, his voice dead and cold.

Clara rushed forward, plugging the USB drive directly into Raymond's open laptop on the library desk. "The files are transferring! Julian, we have it all—the bank accounts, the hitman's contracts, the forged wills!"

With a single tap on the keyboard, Clara broadcast the files not just to the local authorities, but directly to the massive LED screens in the grand ballroom below.

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Downstairs, the chatter of high society instantly silenced as incriminating documents, audio recordings of Raymond’s confession, and surveillance footage of the poisoning flooded the screens for hundreds of shareholders and media journalists to see.

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