A Midnight Package Delivered To My Desk Contains A Severed Hand And A 60-Minute Timer Pointing To My Son's Family
👉 Previous Decision: You chose to either suppress Sarah Lindqvist or brief her off the record, both paths leading to this point.
The precinct briefing room was packed. Senior command staff sat around the long table. Clara, perfectly poised, distributed copies of my medical files. Dominic sat beside her, his face a mask of conflict.
“Captain Novak’s recent actions, including unauthorized press detention and obsessive focus on cold cases, suggest a pattern of cognitive decline,” Clara stated, her voice even.
She laid out my old financial statements, highlighting a series of innocuous withdrawals, making them sound sinister. She requested temporary management of all family assets, citing my “unstable judgment.”
Dominic’s eyes met mine. He flinched, then looked away. He couldn’t meet my gaze. The fear of public scandal, of tarnishing the family name, was a potent weapon.
I felt the walls closing in. Clara was using every lever, isolating me from my own relatives, cutting me off from precinct resources. She knew about the wire transfer, knew about my past. This was a systematic takedown.
Her objective wasn’t just to remove me from command. It was to prevent me from investigating that $1.2 million, to stop me from uncovering the architect of this elaborate trap.
Choose your next action
Challenge Clara directly in front of the precinct command staff using Sarah’s bank logs — Read Chapter 9 to continue
Voluntarily step aside temporarily to privately investigate the origin of Clara’s legal files — Read Chapter 10 to continue
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