Cooper slammed his palm onto the brief:
“Under Section Fourteen-B of the 1944 Mercer Sovereign Lineal Charter: eighty years ago, Arthur Mercer Senior decreed that if an adverse commercial factoring partner attempts to murder, defraud, abandon, or extinguish the living lineal bloodline of the master surveyor on an active sovereign defense homestead…”
Admiral David Mercer bared his teeth in a razor-thin, cold line of white bone:
“Every commercial share of The Valkyrie Trust, your estate in Lake Forest, Julian Vance’s luxury factoring accounts in Vaduz, and seventy billion dollars in carried defense reserves reverts in absolute, un-divided fee simple unto Chancellor Adrian Arthur Mercer!”
“And his designated sovereign foundation in perpetuity!”
“The surgeon whose seat was kicked for two hours… the doctor your daughter told to ‘deal with it’ while committing high treason… is the sole registered fee-simple owner of Conduit Ten, the master sovereign creditor of your entire eighteen-billion-dollar conspiracy, and the Director of Sovereign Continuity for the United States Armed Forces!”
