Chapter 4 - Selina's True Motives Begin To Unravel Completely
Across town in an upscale downtown penthouse, Selina Cole paced nervously across the imported Persian wool living room rug.
Her phone buzzed incessantly against the mahogany coffee table, displaying missed call alerts from Flynn’s private number.
She ignored the calls, her mind racing as she calculated the financial fallout of her failed manipulation scheme.
The superficial scratch on her arm had already begun to heal, exposing the desperate fabrication of her staged attack.
A sudden, sharp knock echoed at her front door, followed immediately by the sound of a heavy master key turning the lock.
Two federal investigators and a local police detective pushed open the door without waiting for a polite invitation.
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“Selina Cole?” the lead detective asked, flashing his gold badge with unyielding authority under the apartment lights.
“You are being served with an emergency subpoena regarding your involvement in an attempted murder and financial conspiracy.”
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