Chapter 2 - Recovering The Hidden Metallic Device
Grace dropped to her knees beside the dark cherrywood casket, her fingers trembling as she reached into the satin lining.
Her fingertips brushed against a cold, heavy object resting right where the metallic item had fallen from Nathan's collar.
She pulled it into the dim light of the chapel, her breath catching instantly in her throat.
It was a custom-engineered master decryption drive, etched with a classified corporate logo she recognized all too well.
This was the exact hardware Nathan used to secure his biomedical research files at the Seattle biotechnology firm.
Sophie continued to sob softly against her father's chest, unaware of the digital key resting in her mother's hand.
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Grace clutched the cold metal tightly, realizing that her husband's sudden revival was tied to something unimaginably dangerous.
The mournful echoes of the organ had completely ceased, replaced by a suffocating, unnatural silence across the rows of pews.
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