Subsequent to a swift sojourn upstairs to alter her attire, Ara embarked on her journey towards Lucielle's domicile, chaperoned by Floyd and a select group of his men. They maintained a protective proximity to her, while John clutched the document Floyd had bequeathed him with a tenacious grip.
The daily newspaper bore the date of that very day. The attention-grabbing headline in the business section elicited a devilish grin on John's face as he perused it for the fifth time. "Former Boston Billionaire to File Bankruptcy." Beneath this, a concise article discussed how a number of Douglas's enterprises had faltered in the preceding year, no less than four, and how an unmistakable indication of his precipitous fall from grace was the fact that his son had been incrementally withdrawing his
