Chapter 25 - THE FINAL CONFRONTATION
The investigator froze, his hand moving toward his jacket, his eyes wide as he realized he had been trapped.
"Don't," she warned, pointing her weapon at him, her aim true, her heart beating with a steady, calm rhythm.
"Who hired you?" she asked, her voice low, her eyes burning with a demand for the absolute, bitter truth.
"I can't tell you that," he said, his voice shaking, the arrogance stripped away in the face of his end.
"You can, or you can never leave this mountain," she replied, her tone indifferent, a woman who had seen enough.
He saw the steel in her eyes, the cold, unyielding resolve of a woman who had walked through the fire and won.
"It was the lawyers! The Sterling estate's lawyers! They wanted the hard drive back!" he blurted out in desperation.
She took it in, the information she needed, the proof that the threat was not just one person, but a system.
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"You're going to leave, you're going to tell them you found nothing, and you're never coming back," she commanded.
He didn't hesitate, he didn't argue, he just nodded and got back into his car, disappearing into the dark night.
