Chapter 10 - Sarah Explains Why She Had To Disappear Quietly
“Don’t shoot her, Jack! She didn’t betray us to the shadow director; she was trying to warn us,” Sarah pleaded.
Jack kept his weapon steady, his eyes darting between Sarah and the trembling woman sitting in the back seat.
“Explain yourself right now, Elena, before I leave you stranded on this mountain,” Jack demanded coldly.
Elena swallowed hard, holding up her hands in a gesture of absolute surrender as she looked at the gun barrel.
“The shadow director isn't just hunting you, Jack; he’s purging every single agent who signed the original 2010 audit,” Elena explained.
“That audit exposed the billion-dollar slush fund used to finance illegal domestic surveillance operations,” Sarah added.
Jack lowered his weapon slightly, processing the monumental stakes of the conspiracy he had stumbled back into.
“So the entire agency is compromised from the top down, and we have nowhere left to run,” Jack concluded grimly.
“We have one place left: the federal reserve archive beneath the old congressional bunker in Washington,” Elena revealed.
Sarah shook her head in immediate disagreement, knowing the immense danger of infiltrating the nation's capital.
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“That’s a suicide mission, Elena; the entire perimeter is monitored by biometric surveillance and automated drones,” Sarah argued.
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