Chapter 15 - The Unseen Tracking Beacon
It was a chilly October evening when Maya walked out of the Federal Building on Foley Square, pulling her scarf close around her neck.
She carried her leather briefcase over her shoulder, feeling the quiet satisfaction of closing three major corruption cases in a single month.
As she walked toward the subway entrance, she didn't notice the sleek silver sedan parked along the curb two hundred yards away.
Inside the sedan, a high-tech tracking receiver hummed quietly, displaying a blinking red dot that matched Maya's exact steps.
The woman from Los Angeles—whose name was Victoria Sterling— sat in the rear seat, watching Maya through tinted windows.
"The beacon installed on her briefcase is functioning perfectly, ma'am," the driver reported without looking back.
"She is heading to her residence in Greenwich Village."
Victoria pulled an encrypted satellite phone from her purse, dialing a number that connected directly to a private military compound in Nevada.
"Team Alpha is deployed in Manhattan," Victoria said into the receiver, her voice calm and terrifyingly detached.
"Initiate Phase One of Operation Ghost Sweep."
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"We aren't just going to eliminate Agent Miller," she added, her eyes tracking Maya's movement on the screen.
"We are going to draw Jax Vance out into the open and dismantle everything he built."
