Chapter 6: The Uncorrupted File
Chapter 6: The Uncorrupted File
The heavy oak doors of the library swung open. A young tech specialist walked in, carrying a high-end forensic laptop. He looked tense, his eyes darting away from the powerful billionaires in the room.
"Sir," the technician addressed Detective Miller. "We managed to salvage a corrupted file from the secondary server."
Victoria stopped swirling her wine. Her posture stiffened. "What secondary server? The staircase camera is broken."
"It is," the detective replied, his voice flat. "But which file did you find, son?"
"The eastern hallway feed," the technician explained, setting the laptop down and connecting it to the large media screen on the wall. "The angle is offset, but because of the wide-angle lens, it captures the threshold of the top landing."
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An uncomfortable silence descended upon the room. The technician hit play.
The screen flickered to life. The footage showed Emily walking gracefully toward the staircase, her hand gently resting on her stomach. A few paces behind her, moving with a strange, deliberate stealth, was Victoria.
