Chapter 5 - The Whistleblower
Andrew immediately pushed Ethan behind him, raising his hands in a gesture of surrender.
He braced himself for the bullet, assuming Vance's assassins had somehow beaten him to the safehouse.
The woman did not pull the trigger.
She carefully lowered the weapon, her hands shaking slightly as she let out a long, exhausted breath.
She looked to be in her late twenties, wearing a dark raincoat over faded medical scrubs.
She introduced herself as Sarah, a former pediatric nurse who used to work at the Evergreen Institute.
Andrew kept his guard up, demanding to know how she had found his secret property.
Sarah explained that she had been following Ethan's tracking beacon since he escaped the facility.
She had hacked into Vance's network weeks ago, searching for a way to expose the horrors happening underground.
Andrew demanded to know exactly what Vance was doing in that building.
Sarah's eyes filled with tears as she detailed a nightmare of illegal adoptions, human trafficking, and experimental genetic trials.
She revealed that Vance was selling children to the global elite, using the institute as a flawless cover.
Ethan was the only child who had ever managed to pick the electronic lock of the basement wards.
Sarah reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a thick, heavily redacted police file.
She tossed it onto the desk, telling Andrew it was the true accident report from the night his wife died.
Andrew felt his heart shatter all over again as he reached for the manila folder.
Sarah explained that Emily had accidentally discovered Vance's shell company while auditing their charitable donations.
She was on her way to the FBI the night her car was run off the road by professional mercenaries.
It was never a tragic accident on a wet highway.
It was a cold, calculated execution ordered by the man Andrew considered a brother.
Before Andrew could even process the sheer magnitude of the betrayal, a faint red laser sight danced across the wall.
The crimson dot traced a jagged path before settling perfectly over the center of Sarah's chest.
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Andrew lunged forward with explosive speed, grabbing her shoulder.
The warehouse window shattered violently as a high-caliber sniper bullet tore through the room.
