Part 9: The Legal Trap
Part 9: The Legal Trap
Returning to Dallas, Emily spent forty-eight hours straight with Marcus, reviewing her father’s oldest personal journals. They discovered a hidden encryption key stamped into the back of an old family portrait. When entered into the foundation's server, it unlocked a secure partition containing decades of recorded conversations between her father and Arthur.
The audio files proved her father had tried to back out of the alliance, but Arthur had threatened Emily's life when she was just a child. Her father hadn't been a corrupt criminal; he had been a desperate man trying to buy his daughter's safety from a cartel-backed politician.
