Chapter 5 - The Inside Mole
The cold metal handcuffs bit deeply into my wrists as the officers pushed me into the cruiser.
I sat in the holding cell for three agonizing hours before a lawyer finally arrived.
It was not a public defender, but the most expensive corporate attorney in the city.
He told me that my mother had paid his retainer in full and sent him to get me out.
The lawyer explained that my own accounting firm had filed the criminal charges against me.
My boss had provided the police with fabricated emails showing I had extorted the Vale family.
I realized with absolute horror that my managing partner was on the Vales' secret payroll.
The lawyer posted my bail, and I walked out of the precinct into the rainy night.
My mother was waiting for me in her old, reliable sedan.
I climbed inside and told her that the corruption went much deeper than we thought.
Elena put the car in drive and smiled a dangerous, calculating smile.
She said it was finally time to stop playing by their polite corporate rules.
She drove us to a secluded warehouse on the industrial edge of the city.
We walked inside and found a massive server farm humming quietly in the dark.
My mother explained that her real estate empire included housing the city's largest independent data center.
She had secretly intercepted all the network traffic from my accounting firm for the past week.
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She pointed to a glowing computer screen and told me to look at the decrypted files.
I gasped when I saw the final destination of the stolen fifty million dollars.
