Chapter 3: The Point of No Return
"Betrayal isn't the knife in your back; it's the realization that you handed the handle to the wrong person."
The police sirens outside died down. Everything became eerily silent. Aris didn't want to kill her immediately; he wanted an accomplice. He gave her a choice: "Either you help me decipher this to expose that director, or you become a scapegoat for the police who'll raid the place right now."
Elena looked into the eyes of the Golden Retriever – Buster. The animal knew nothing of the cruel conspiracies. She looked at Aris. His firmness, the precision in his every gesture, told her he was the only one capable of protecting the truth.
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She didn't choose her employer. She chose herself.
Elena lunged forward, not to steal the USB, but to pull out a tiny jamming device hidden in the hem of her jacket. A piercing "beep" sound cut off the villain's communication line outside. In that moment, she and Aris became allies. The battle of wits began. They had to extract the data and copy it into the server system of New York's largest newspaper before the henchmen stormed the clinic.
