Chapter 18
Vanessa did not panic; instead, her eyes narrowed with a cold, predatory focus as she downloaded the encrypted files onto a secure flash drive.
She walked over to the wall safe hidden behind a framed landscape painting, spinning the steel combination dial with practiced precision.
Inside sat her father's original handwritten journals detailing the founding of Vance-Sterling Global and its dark, buried secrets.
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She placed the new flash drive inside the velvet-lined compartment alongside a stack of confidential federal whistleblower testimonies.
The war she thought she had won on the night of the candlelit dinner was merely the opening battle of a much larger global conflict.
