Chapter 5 - The Unseen Player
"Who is the accomplice?" I demanded, standing up from my desk.
Marcus tapped the tablet screen, revealing a photograph of a high-ranking Department of Defense official—Undersecretary Arthur Sterling.
"Sterling was your father's former deputy," Marcus explained. "He’s been feeding your mother legal advice on how to bypass your father's trust seals for the past five years. In exchange, he was supposed to receive a fifty-percent cut of the technology sale."
I walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window, looking out over the dark, rain-swept lake.
"So Arthur Sterling thought he was using my foolish mother to steal my father's life work," I whispered.
"Yes," Marcus nodded. "Sterling believes you're still sitting in the main foyer crying over your mother's eviction. He doesn't know we've already intercepted his server communication logs."
I turned back to Marcus, my eyes blazing with fierce determination.
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"Call a emergency meeting of the Defense Oversight Committee in Washington for tomorrow morning," I commanded. "Tell Undersecretary Sterling that Commander Caldwell is coming to deliver her final report."
"With pleasure, Commander," Marcus smiled warmly.
