Chapter 80: To Face the Music

With an angry roar, he swept his arm across his desk, sending everything clattering to the floor—all the papers, office supplies, and personal effects.   "I won't let you destroy me!" he howled at the empty office. "Not after everything I've built!"   But as the echoes of his outburst faded, Horace felt a creeping sense of dread.   The color drained from Horace Greg’s face as the realization washed over him. So what? What could he possibly do?   His daughter's obsession and behavior towards Daniel Shaw and her confrontation with Daniel’s wife had sown the seeds of this catastrophe. Even if he wanted to beg, how would he start?   At the time, Horace had been pursuing funding for an investment opportunity, one that promised to generate a windfall of profits from the sale of high-end cybersecurity secrets to foreign buyers.   He had heard that she was on a wanted list. The 12 guns wanted her. He had already sold so many things under the nose of the Shaw, and it was only a matt