The Midnight Recording: How a Pentagon Signal Officer Used His Wife's Own Voice to Cover Up a $185,000 Treason Scheme
👉 Previous Choice: You chose Option B – Conceal herself inside the bedroom armoire to observe who Arthur brought with him.
The bedroom door handle began to turn. Evelyn, moving with the silent grace of pure terror, squeezed herself into the narrow space of the antique armoire, pulling the heavy wooden doors shut with barely a whisper. She clutched Julian’s .38, its cold steel a meager comfort against the pounding of her heart.
The door swung open. Heavy footsteps entered the room, not just one pair, but two. Evelyn pressed her ear to the wooden slats, holding her breath.
“Still not here,” Arthur’s voice, calm and detached, said.
“She’s a creature of habit, Arthur,” a deeper, gruffer voice replied. “She’ll run straight for the main road. The team will pick her up.”
Evelyn recognized the voice. Colonel Silas Albright of DOD Logistics, a man Arthur often grumbled about, now his accomplice.
They ignored the bed, the displaced dust ruffle, everything. Instead, they moved directly to Evelyn’s small writing desk. The sound of drawers being pried open, wood scraping against wood, filled the small space.
“Julian’s overseas financial records,” Arthur muttered, his voice cold. “He would have hidden them here.”
They found her locked filing box, a heavy metal contraption she used for bills and old letters. Evelyn heard them heft it.
“This is it,” Albright said. “Let’s get it to the car.”
The footsteps receded. The front door opened and closed. Evelyn waited, counting slowly to sixty, her muscles screaming. Finally, she pushed the armoire doors open. The room was empty, her desk ransacked.
She slipped out the kitchen window, the rain-soaked grass cushioning her bare feet. The streetlights cast long, distorted shadows. She ran through the cold night, the .38 still gripped tightly, her only destination Clara’s Bethesda apartment.
➡️ Read CHAPTER 8 to continue the story.
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