Chapter 23 - Lily Steps into the Light

"Stop!" a high-pitched voice rang out from above. Vance, Miller, and Clara looked up. Standing on a steel catwalk high above the warehouse floor was tiny Lily. In her small hands, she held the leather ledger, hovering it directly over a roaring metal incinerator used for destroying trash. "If you shoot my mom or Samuel, I drop the ledger into the fire!" Lily shouted, her voice echoing with an authority that shocked everyone in the room.