Chapter 21 - An Unmarked Executive Jet Lands At The Estate Helipad
Late one foggy autumn evening, while Leo slept peacefully in his room, the heavy beat of helicopter blades echoed over the estate grounds. A sleek, unmarked black executive stealth helicopter touched down quietly on the estate’s private rear helipad near the cliffs.
Chloe walked out onto the stone terrace with four armed security contractors, her dark silk robe fluttering in the cool ocean wind. The helicopter door slid open, and a tall man in a dark federal trench coat stepped down onto the tarmac, carrying a sealed steel case.
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He walked up the terrace steps, stopped ten feet from Chloe, and pulled out a badge bearing the crest of the United States Treasury.
"Mrs. Sterling, your late father's secret partner has just landed in Washington... and he brought the second half of the Sterling Codex."
