Chapter 32
Chapter 32: The Geometry of Trust
Silas and Rossi make their way to meet Senator Torres's chief of staff, only to discover the meeting is a trap. They escape but are separated from the evidence. Evelyn Reed arrives with a new plan involving a dead drop, but the cost of the plan reveals a deeper betrayal. The chapter ends with Rossi receiving a message that Marcus Chen has escaped custody, suggesting the conspiracy's reach is still expanding.
The forest swallowed them whole. For the first hour, Silas heard nothing but the crunch of their footsteps on dry leaves, the ragged rhythm of his own breathing, and the occasional distant cry of a bird. Rossi moved ahead of him, her hand never straying far from the gun at her hip, her eyes scanning the tree line with a practiced vigilance that he had come to admire.
They had left the motel with nothing but the clothes on their backs, the laptop, and a single burner phone. The documents were in a waterproof bag strapped across Rossi's chest, the evidence of decades of corruption held together by paper clips and faith.
"We need to find a vehicle," Rossi said, not turning around. "We can't walk all the way to the meet."
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