Chapter 22 - AN UNKNOWN VISITOR
Following the gala dinner, Clara returned to her private executive office on the top floor of the Drake Hotel.
She found a sleek black envelope sitting on her mahogany desk, sealed with a red wax stamp of a double falcon.
Clara picked up the envelope, her brow furrowing in curiosity as she examined the untraceable paper.
She broke the wax seal, pulling out a high-resolution photograph taken in a European airport three days prior.
The photo showed an older woman with white hair updo wearing a green silk dress walking through a terminal.
It was Beatrice Montgomery—looking healthy, free, and walking alongside two armed private security guards.
Behind the photo was a printed document from the Federal Bureau of Prisons dated two weeks ago.
"Inmate Beatrice Montgomery died of cardiac arrest in medical isolation," the official document stated.
Clara stared at the photo and the death certificate, her blood running cold as the terrifying truth hit her mind.
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Beatrice had faked her own death inside the federal prison system and fled the United States.
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