Three Days Later
The beach house became a war room.
Sarah had sent encrypted files—everything she'd gathered about the Arrow Society's structure. Torres had flown in with two of her operatives. Even Dr. Chen arrived, his expertise in tracking financial networks essential.
"Here's what we know," Sarah said, spreading documents across the dining table. "Six imprisoned Arrow Society members dead in two weeks. All different methods—suicide, accident, prison fights. But the pattern is clear. Someone's eliminating loose ends."
"And Ashford?" I asked.
"Most important. She was the one person who knew the full structure. Where the real money was, who the true power players were." Dr. Chen pulled up financial records. "Before she died, she was in the process of negotiating a plea deal. She was going to give up names."
"So someone killed her to protect those names," Dante said.
