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Chapter 2 - The Price of Arrogance

Margaret Wellington tried to summon her usual aristocratic posture, stepping in front of her son as the two giant men stepped onto her porch.

“Who do you think you are?!” Margaret yelled, though her voice lacked its usual bite, trembling slightly under the sheer weight of Alexander’s stare. “This is private property! You destroyed my garden! My son is a senior partner at Wellington Law! We will sue you into non-existence!”

Alexander didn't answer immediately. He slowly pulled a white linen handkerchief from his breast pocket and wiped a droplet of rain from his cheek.

“Wellington Law,” Alexander said softly. “You mean the firm that relies on a forty-million-dollar annual retainer from Morgan Financial Syndicate?”

Christopher’s face drained of every drop of color.

“Morgan...?” Christopher choked out, his knees visibly shaking. “You’re... you’re Alexander Morgan?”

“I am,” Alexander replied coldly. “And the woman you left bleeding on a concrete curb is Sarah Morgan. Our sister. The sole heiress to half of the Morgan estate.”

Margaret gasped, her hand flying to her mouth. “No... no, that’s impossible! She was an orphan! She was a waitress! She had no family!”

“Our parents died in a car crash when she was five,” Nicholas stepped forward, his voice like grinding tectonic plates. “The system split us up before Alexander and I were old enough to stop them. We spent two decades building an empire so we would have the resources to find her. And while we were searching... you were abusing her.”

Victoria, still standing in Sarah’s silk robe, tried to shrink behind Christopher. “Chris... do something. Tell them to leave!”

Nicholas’s eyes snapped to Victoria. He took two slow steps toward her.

“Take off that robe,” Nicholas ordered quietly.

“What?” Victoria stammered.

“You heard me,” Nicholas said, his eyes burning with pure disgust. “You are wearing my sister’s clothes in the house she decorated while carrying her husband’s child. Take it off. Now.”

“You can’t talk to her like that!” Christopher shouted, trying to summon a shred of manhood. “This is my house!”

Alexander raised his phone, pressing a single button on his screen. He held it up so Christopher could see the display.

“Correction, Mr. Wellington,” Alexander said smoothly. “As of three minutes ago, Morgan Real Estate acquired the default mortgage on 420 Wellington Drive from First National Bank. I bought your debt. I bought your firm’s commercial leases. I bought the bank that holds your mother’s trust fund.”

Alexander stepped closer, his shadow completely engulfing Christopher.

“You don't own this house anymore, Christopher. You don't own your car. You don't even own the suit you are wearing. You have exactly sixty seconds to get off my sister’s property before my security team throws you into the rain just like you did to her.”

“You can’t do that!” Margaret shrieked, losing all composure, her voice turning into a high-pitched scream. “We have rights! This is illegal!”

“Call the police, Mrs. Wellington,” Nicholas invited her with a dark, terrifying grin. “The Chief of Police is currently on a private jet I paid for, heading to my estate for dinner. Go ahead. Dial.”

Christopher fell to his knees right on the porch, staring at Alexander in pure, unadulterated horror.

“Mr. Morgan... please!” Christopher begged, tears springing to his eyes as his entire life crumbled in less than ten minutes. “I didn't know! I swear I didn't know she was your sister! Sarah never told me!”

“She didn't know herself,” Alexander spat, looking down at him with cold detachment. “She thought she was alone in the world. She thought she was marrying a man who would protect her. But you aren't a man, Wellington. You are a weak, pathetic coward who lets his mother run his life and his mistress wear his wife’s clothes.”

Alexander turned to the tactical commander standing at the bottom of the steps.

“Seal the house,” Alexander ordered. “Throw their personal belongings into the street. Change the locks. Audit Wellington Law by midnight. I want every tax discrepancy, every offshore account, and every ethics violation on my desk before sunrise.”

“Right away, sir!”

“Wait! Please!” Victoria cried as two tactical guards dragged her out of the foyer, forcing her to drop the silk robe on the ground as she was pushed out into the rain in her slip dress.

Margaret shrieked as her leather handbags and designer shoes were tossed over the porch railing, scattering across the wet lawn she had bragged about for ten years.

Christopher sat on the damp stone steps, weeping hysterically as the neighbors—the very same neighbors who had filmed Sarah’s humiliation—now pointed their phones at him, recording the utter annihilation of the Wellington family.

Alexander didn't waste another second looking at them. He walked back down the steps toward the waiting helicopter.

“Nicholas,” Alexander said as he stepped inside. “How is she?”

Nicholas looked at his tablet, his expression softening instantly. “She just arrived at Seattle Grace. She’s in the delivery room. We need to go.”

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“Lift off!” Alexander commanded.

The helicopters roared back into the rainy sky, leaving Wellington Drive in absolute ruin.

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