Chapter 6 - Vanessa’s Father Ran the Contract
Adrian felt the room narrow.
Sterling Strategic Logistics had belonged to his late father, Richard.
After Richard’s death, Adrian sold most defense operations and focused
on technology and infrastructure.
But seven years earlier, the division had been run by someone else.
Victor Langley.
Vanessa’s father.
Adrian looked toward the ballroom.
Vanessa had been engaged to him for eight months.
Naomi saw the realization.
“This is why I never told you.”
“You thought I knew?”
“I didn’t know what you knew.”
Adrian asked why she took a job inside his home.
Naomi hesitated.
Then showed him the photograph from her bag.
It pictured Richard Sterling beside Naomi’s dead brother, Sergeant Mateo
Reyes.
Adrian had never known they knew each other.
“Mateo died in the convoy?”
“Yes.”
“And my father?”
“Contacted me two weeks before he died.”
Richard Sterling had told Naomi he found evidence someone inside the
company had manipulated military shipment records.
He promised to meet her.
May you like
He died of a stroke before he could.
But he left something behind.
