The Midnight Recording: How a Pentagon Signal Officer Used His Wife's Own Voice to Cover Up a $185,000 Treason Scheme
👉 Previous Action: You continued from Chapter 6 or Chapter 7, arriving at Clara’s apartment.
Evelyn burst into Clara’s Bethesda apartment, soaking wet, the .38 clutched tight. Clara, already a whirlwind of contained fury, met her at the door. Evelyn, panting, recounted the entire horrific ordeal—the voice, the rig, Arthur and Albright searching her desk.
Clara’s jaw tightened. “Albright? That bastard.” She pointed to the locked military briefcase Julian had sent. “This is why he’s involved.”
They used a heavy chisel from Clara’s toolbox, prying at the reinforced clasps. The metal groaned, then snapped open. Inside, nestled among a few personal items, lay a stack of official bank transaction receipts from the Bank of Geneva.
Evelyn picked one up, her fingers tracing the foreign script. “What is this?”
Clara scanned the documents, her journalist’s eye quickly identifying the key details. “Look here,” she pointed, her finger landing on a sum. “$185,000. Transferred from U.S. Army supply accounts into a private Swiss account.” She looked at the account holder. “Registered under Arthur’s security code.”
Evelyn felt the blood drain from her face. “Arthur? But… Julian—”
“Julian wasn’t killed by enemy fire, Evelyn,” Clara interrupted, her voice hard. “He was murdered. He must have discovered Arthur was diverting defense payroll funds into foreign black-market channels. This is it. This is Arthur’s scheme.”
Clara slammed her fist on the table, making the receipts jump. “He killed Julian to cover this up. And he tried to kill you to cover *that* up.”
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