Chapter 5 - The Secret Laboratory Beneath The Virginia Safehouse
The damaged Mercedes came to a smoking halt near the bridge footings, its front axle shattered against the heavy stone wall.
Julian pulled his SUV across both lanes, drawing his service weapon as he approached the wrecked luxury sedan with extreme caution.
The driver was slumped over the inflated airbag, unconscious, but Victoria’s passenger door swung open into the dark night.
She scrambled down the grassy embankment toward the rushing waters of the Potomac River, clutching a leather document briefcase tightly.
"Stop right there, Victoria! There is nowhere left for you to run!" Julian shouted, his boots sliding on the muddy riverbank.
Victoria stopped at the water's edge, turning around with a wild, desperate look in her eyes as rain soaked her designer clothes.
"You don't understand what's at stake, Julian! If I don't deliver these files to Northern Virginia by midnight, they will kill my entire family!" she cried out.
"Who are 'they', Victoria? Who gave you the chemical vial at the mansion tonight?" Julian demanded, keeping his weapon trained on her chest.
"The same military contractors who built the underground lab beneath your father's estate in McLean!" she confessed through frantic sobs.
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Julian froze, the shock of her words hitting him harder than the freezing rain pouring down from the dark clouds above.
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