Chapter 26 - THE PENTHOUSE TRAP
"What is he talking about, Wright?" Maya asked, her voice dropping into an icy register as she backed away slowly toward the open car door.
Officer Wright did not answer immediately. He kept his eyes fixed on the stranger, his posture hardening into a military stance that Maya had never seen him use before.
"Stand down, Agent Wright," the stranger commanded calmly, taking two steps closer. "Your assignment with the FBI ended the moment Maya discovered the D.C. vault."
Maya felt a wave of cold terror wash over her as the pieces of the puzzle suddenly locked into place. "You weren't just a hotel security guard... you were placed at the Grand Regency to monitor me."
Wright slowly lowered his weapon, looking at Maya with a expression of genuine remorse. "I was assigned to protect you, Maya. Everything I did—locking the server room, driving you to Boston—was to keep you alive."
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"Who do you really work for, Wright?" Maya demanded, her voice shaking with raw fury.
"He works for me," a woman's voice called out from the back seat of the armored sedan.
