Chapter 23 - THE CELLBLOCK MYSTERY
News of Charles Sterling's sudden prison death reached Manhattan by early morning.
Clara sat in her new executive office on the top floor of Montgomery Tower, reviewing financial reports.
Detective Reese walked in, his expression unusually grim as he closed the double doors.
"Autopsy results came back from the state examiner," Reese reported, dropping a file on her desk.
"Poison?" Clara asked, looking up from her screen.
"Synthetic neurotoxin," Reese confirmed. "The exact same compound Victoria tried to use on you."
Clara leaned back into her leather armchair, her jaw tight. "Victoria is in maximum security in New Jersey. She couldn't have ordered a hit inside a federal prison."
"Which means someone higher up in the syndicate cleaned up the loose end," Reese concluded.
"They killed Charles to stop him from talking about the secondary vault," Clara realized.
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"What secondary vault?" Reese asked, leaning over the desk.
"My father didn't just build one vault in Connecticut," Clara revealed, pulling up a subterranean map on her computer screen. "There's a second vault hidden under our estate in Aspen."
