Chapter 5 - The Stolen Secrets
The heavy silence in the hospital room was completely shattered by the metallic click of Vance's weapon.
Tessa slowly raised her hands, her terrified expression instantly fading into a cold, highly calculated smirk.
She confidently told Vance that shooting her would eliminate the only person who knew where the stolen data was hidden.
Colonel Whitaker immediately ordered his men to secure the perimeter, realizing the threat was far greater than financial fraud.
Vance angrily explained that Tessa had infiltrated my husband's life solely to gain access to my late father's classified trust.
The trust did not just contain billions of dollars in real estate and lucrative corporate assets.
It contained highly encrypted blueprints for next-generation military drone technology that my father had secretly developed before his death.
Russell had foolishly believed he was using Tessa to secure his wealth, but she had been manipulating him from the very beginning.
She had used his blind greed to gain physical access to the estate's private servers during their late-night hotel affairs.
Russell's face contorted in absolute horror as he finally understood the sheer magnitude of his monumental stupidity.
He had unwittingly committed high treason by allowing a foreign spy to access heavily classified Department of Defense networks.
Tessa proudly confessed that she had already successfully downloaded the encrypted drone blueprints onto a localized server.
She coldly added that the data transfer to a hostile foreign government was scheduled to complete in exactly two hours.
I listened to their terrifying confessions, my heart aching for the peaceful life I had foolishly believed I was living.
I realized my innocent babies had been brought into this world as mere pawns in a massive, deadly game of international espionage.
Vance demanded to know exactly where the localized server was hidden, keeping his weapon perfectly steady.
Tessa laughed softly, glancing down at the cream-colored wool coat she had so proudly stolen from me earlier.
She casually reached into the deep pocket of the coat and pulled out a small, highly sophisticated tracking device.
She revealed that the server was currently in a moving vehicle, being driven toward the Canadian border by her elite mercenary team.
Whitaker grabbed his radio, aggressively barking coordinates to a tactical strike team on standby near the northern highway.
Tessa smiled wickedly, completely unbothered by the massive military response mobilizing against her network.
She calmly stated that the transfer required a unique biometric key to successfully decrypt the final military files.
Russell desperately tried to negotiate, offering to hand over all his remaining money in exchange for federal immunity.
Vance completely ignored my pathetic husband, keeping his intense focus locked entirely on the dangerous spy.
He aggressively grabbed Tessa by the collar, demanding to know whose biometric signature was required to unlock the data.
Tessa looked directly into my eyes, her chilling smile sending a massive shiver of terror straight down my spine.
She revealed that my late father had hard-coded the final decryption sequence to match the specific DNA of his direct descendants.
Because I had recently undergone major surgery, my biometric signature was currently too weak to pass the security threshold.
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Tessa pointed a manicured finger directly at the incubators holding my fragile, sleeping twins.
She loudly declared that the foreign buyers were on their way to the hospital to extract the necessary DNA directly from my babies.
