Chapter 21 - A Mysterious Package Arrives With A Secret From Yesterday
On a quiet Tuesday evening, Maya returned to her penthouse suite after attending a global medical foundation symposium in Chicago.
resting on the glass coffee table in her foyer was a heavy wooden box with no postage stamp or return address attached.
She broke the silver wax seal, lifting the carved wooden lid to reveal a collection of old black-and-white photographs inside.
The top photograph showed Maya’s late father standing arm-in-arm with Richard’s father outside a medical laboratory in 1984.
Beneath the photograph was a handwritten letter penned in faded black ink, dated forty years prior to her arrival in Winnetka.
Maya picked up the letter, her heart pounding against her ribs as she read the opening sentence written in her father’s handwriting:
May you like
“If you are reading this, Maya, it means the Vance family secret has finally reached your hands... and you must find Vault 7 in Zurich before Ethan’s true employer realizes you survived.”
Maya froze, her eyes widening in complete shock as a cold shadow swept past the high-security penthouse window overlooking the lake.
