Chapter 15 - A New Dawn
The morning sun broke through the heavy gray clouds over the city skyline, casting a warm, golden light across the paved avenue. The flashing red and blue lights of the police cruisers reflected sharply against the glass windows of the grand hotel lobby where Elena stood watching with unbothered poise.
Two senior federal agents flanked the detective who held the encrypted flash drive. Without breaking eye contact with Julian, Elena set her porcelain coffee cup down on a nearby marble planter box, slowly placed her hands behind her back, and offered her wrists willingly to the officers who moved in to arrest her. There was no struggle, no dramatic plea for mercy—only the cold, calculated silence of a woman who knew the game of power was never truly finished.
As the heavy metal doors of the police transport van closed behind Elena, the street finally grew quiet.
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Maeve stood on the sidewalk beside Julian’s wheelchair, watching the convoy drive away. Her beige maid uniform was torn and stained with soot and blood,
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