Chapter 12 - Mateo’s Death Gets Reexamined Carefully
Naomi wanted one thing more than clearing her name.
She wanted to know whether Mateo’s death had been preventable.
Investigators reconstructed the convoy records.
The original route had been changed.
Naomi’s credentials had been used.
But evidence did not establish that Victor ordered the attack or knew
militants would be waiting.
The corruption scheme and the ambush could be connected through the
falsified route without proving someone deliberately arranged the
deaths.
Naomi hated that uncertainty.
Adrian asked if she wanted a simpler answer.
“Yes.”
“Would you believe one?”
“No.”
That was the problem.
Truth did not become cleaner because grief wanted it to.
What the records did show was enough.
Naomi had not been in the location from which the approval was entered.
Her credentials had been compromised.
And the contractor systems Richard investigated contained serious
irregularities.
Mateo was still dead.
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But Naomi no longer had to carry responsibility that evidence
increasingly showed was not hers.
