Chapter 17
While overseeing renovations in the grand foyer, workers removed the framed US flag to repair the wall behind it.
Concealed within the solid marble masonry, they discovered a heavy steel biometric safe with an ancient lock.
Lily was summoned to the foyer immediately, holding her father's old signet ring in her hand.
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She placed the ring against the safe's central scanner, and with a heavy metallic click, the vault doors swung open.
Inside lay a single leather-bound journal and a satellite communications terminal sealed in protective plastic.
