Chapter 3: The Evidence Locker
The hospital was a fortress, but Lena didn't need to break in. She had something more effective: leverage.
Two hours after the collapse, while the news cycle was spinning wild theories about the Senator’s health, Lena sat in a dimly lit office with the Senator’s Chief of Staff. She placed a thumb drive on the mahogany desk.
"The Senator isn't sick," Lena said, her voice steady and chillingly calm. "She’s haunted. And the locket is just the beginning."
The Chief of Staff stared at the drive. He knew what would happen if the contents went public. The policies that defined the Senator’s career—the ones that had made her a household name—would be exposed as fabrications. Worse, the digital files contained an audio recording of a late-night phone call from 1999, where a younger Evelyn Thorne discussed the "disappearance" of her roommate with a fixer.
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"You can't do this," the Chief of Staff whispered. "She’s a national figure."
"She’s a fraud," Lena countered. "And Marian Calder deserves to be found."
