Chapter 36 - Feeding the Lie
The plan was audacious, incredibly dangerous, and absolutely necessary. We couldn't fight Julian’s elite mercenary strike team in the middle of a populated Boston neighborhood without risking massive collateral damage and drawing the local police into a chaotic bloodbath. We needed to lure them to a controlled battlefield.
David, the hacker, easily bypassed the biometric lock on Carter’s confiscated phone.
"I have access to his encrypted messaging app," David announced, his fingers hovering over the keyboard. "I can send a message directly to Julian’s handler."
"Tell them the truth about the evacuation, but lie about the objective," I instructed, my mind operating with cold, tactical precision. "Tell Julian that I panicked when I received his threat. Tell him I evacuated the women to Vermont, and that I have personally transported the physical, offline server containing the fifty million dollars in cryptocurrency to a secure, remote location to finalize the transfer safely."
"Julian won't believe you would take the server to an unprotected location," Vivian warned.
"We won't tell him it’s unprotected," my father countered. "We will tell him we moved it to the abandoned Vance Shipping Terminal down by the docks. It’s an isolated, highly defensible industrial complex. Julian will assume we chose it because it’s a fortress. He will send his entire strike team there to seize the physical server and eliminate us."
"Sending message now," David confirmed, hitting the enter key.
We waited in breathless anticipation. Three minutes later, Carter’s phone buzzed with an incoming encrypted reply.
David read it aloud. "Intel confirmed. Strike team is redirecting to the shipping terminal. We breach at 2300 hours. Terminate all targets and secure the server."
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"He took the bait," I whispered, a surge of adrenaline flooding my veins.
"Reynolds," my father barked, grabbing his custom assault rifle from a heavy tactical case. "Load the men into the armored transports. We are going to the docks. We have a welcoming party to prepare."
