Drink the tea, Julian, you look exhausted after the campaign rally, my father-in-law, Senator Arthur Montgomery, said softly as he patted my shoulder.
Agent Danforth’s gaze swung from the family ledgers to me, then to the nervous faces of his own agents. The air in the Capitol corridor crackled with the sudden, dizzying shift in the investigation. The focus had pivoted, sharply and decisively, from my alleged crime to Montgomery’s long-standing financial web.
Marcus Webb, who had hovered uncertainly at the edge of the scene, suddenly found himself under intense scrutiny. Danforth’s eyes landed on him, cold and assessing. “Mr. Webb, you were instructed to upload these ‘financial logs’ into Mr. Brooks’s campaign server, were you not?”
Marcus flinched, his face paling. He glanced at me, then at the stern FBI agents, and finally at Aunt Genevieve, who merely observed him with a quiet, knowing look. The facade of his naive ambition crumbled. His lower lip began to tremble.
“I… I didn’t know,” Marcus stammered, tears welling in his eyes. “He said it was just consolidating old data. He said it was urgent for the campaign. The Senator trusts me with important things.”
He broke down fully then, collapsing onto a nearby bench, shoulders shaking. “He told me to put specific hard drives on Julian’s desk. Just a hand-off, he said. For ‘archiving purposes’ later.”
Through his sobs, Marcus fumbled in his pocket and pulled out his phone. “I… I started recording his instructions,” he admitted, his voice barely audible. “Just because he was giving me so many different errands, so many ‘confidential’ tasks. I thought it was good for my career. Proof I was doing my job right.”
He handed the phone to an agent. “Audio memos,” he explained. “He’s giving me logistics directives. Drop-offs. Pick-ups. All the stuff he said was confidential.”
The FBI agents immediately began reviewing the recordings. Marcus Webb, the unwitting accomplice, had just handed them the smoking gun. His career might be over, but in his desperate, tearful confession, he had opened a direct line into Senator Montgomery’s hidden operations.
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