Chapter 8 - The Federal Frame-Up
I stared at the television screen in absolute disbelief as my picture flashed across the news.
David had somehow managed to frame me entirely for the airstrip bombing and the murder of the police officer.
Sarah walked into the room with two cups of coffee and immediately turned the television off.
She explained that Agnes had immense personal wealth and deep political connections that we knew nothing about.
Agnes had bribed a corrupt federal judge to seal David’s original audio confession and issue a warrant for my arrest.
They wanted me dead or locked away in a dark federal prison forever so they could take my children.
I looked at my peacefully sleeping daughters and refused to let them grow up without their loving mother.
I told Sarah that we could not keep running and hiding like terrified prey anymore.
We had to completely destroy Agnes’s powerful empire from the inside out to ever be truly free.
Sarah pulled out a heavily encrypted laptop and logged into a secure dark web server.
She revealed that she had secretly spent the last five years gathering digital financial evidence against Agnes.
Agnes was actually the central money launderer for three different international cartels.
If we delivered this hard evidence to the right honest federal agent, the entire corrupt family would fall.
Sarah identified an uncorrupted FBI director based in Washington D.C. who had been hunting the cartel for a decade.
We needed a highly secure location to transmit the massive data files without being traced by Agnes's hackers.
There was only one place with a strong enough satellite uplink left in the remote area.
It was an abandoned military communications tower situated at the very top of a snowy mountain.
We left the girls with the armed safe house guards and drove up the treacherous, icy mountain road.
We broke into the rusting facility and Sarah immediately began the lengthy data upload process.
The progress bar slowly crawled to fifty percent as the freezing wind howled violently outside the walls.
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Suddenly, the heavy steel door of the facility was violently blown entirely off its rusty hinges.
Agnes walked confidently into the room surrounded by a dozen heavily armed mercenaries.
