Chapter 14 - The Confession Video
Julian stood over the captured mercenary team leader, holding his smartphone on high-definition video recording mode.
"Who hired you to attack this compound?" Julian demanded, pointing his weapon directly at the leader's bulletproof vest.
The leader, bleeding from a scratch on his forehead, looked into the camera lens with bitter defeat in his eyes.
"Richard Vance paid us five hundred thousand dollars in cash to eliminate Eleanor Harrison and retrieve the stock ledgers!" the leader confessed.
"He gave us the location and told us to make it look like a tragic robbery gone wrong!" the mercenary added frantically.
Julian saved the video file, uploading it instantly to the federal prosecutor's encrypted evidence portal in Albany.
"Get these men loaded into the transport vans," Julian instructed Marcus. "The state police are waiting at the highway exit."
Eleanor walked out onto the porch, wrapped in a thick wool blanket, watching the mercenaries being led away in cuffs.
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"It's time to end this, Julian," Eleanor said quietly. "Call the federal prosecutor... we're going to court."
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