Chapter 2: The Invisible Witness
Marcus Reed vanished within ten minutes.
Phones dead. Cameras looped. Guards missing.
It was clean.
Too clean.
Victor stood in the surveillance room, watching footage rewind again and again. Emily stood behind him, unsure if she was a guest… or a liability.
“You heard his voice,” Victor said.
“Yes.”
“You saw the car.”
“Yes.”
Victor turned to Dominic. “She stays.”
Emily’s breath caught. “I—”
“You don’t go home,” Victor said. “Not tonight. Not until I understand why Marcus didn’t kill you the moment you knew.”
That question hung heavier than any threat.
Because Emily had been wondering the same thing.
That night, as she sat in a guarded guest room she never imagined stepping into, a realization crept in:
Marcus Reed hadn’t failed.
He had chosen not to silence her.
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Which meant—
She was part of something much bigger.
