Chapter 11 - The USB Drive|
Elena looked into Sarah's eyes, seeing a mother's fierce, desperate love reflected back at her.
"She's... she's your baby?" Elena whispered, her voice cracking with emotion.
"She is our baby," Sarah corrected softly, taking Elena's hand into hers. "You carried her, you raised her, you kept her fed when Alexander paid you poverty wages. You are her mother, Elena. And no one is ever going to take her away from you again."
Alexander snapped, his face contorting in rage as he pointed at the federal agents.
"Get out of my office!" Alexander roared. "This is private property! You have no warrant!"
The lead FBI agent stepped forward, pulling a legal document from his jacket.
"Alexander Carter, we have a federal warrant for your arrest," the agent announced. "Charges include attempted murder, corporate fraud, embezzlement of federal infrastructure funds, and illegal asset seizure."
"On what evidence?!" Alexander spat, his voice echoing off the high ceilings.
Sarah stood up, turning to face her brother. She pointed at the black USB drive resting inside the open vault drawer.
"On that drive," Sarah revealed calmly. "Eight years of unencrypted audio recordings from this very office. I installed the microphone inside the vault's titanium frame before I left."
Alexander went rigidly still.
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Every illegal transaction, every bribe paid to city officials, every ordered hit on corporate rivals—all of it had been discussed in this office, right in front of the titanium vault, for eight long years.
The vault hadn't just been a safe. It had been a wiretap.
