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Chapter 52: The Client Without a Name
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2026-11-06 21:00:13Seven weeks earlier.
Three days before the first anonymous message arrived, a new matter had been opened at Hawthorne & Briggs.
Four payments had gone from that matter to Northbridge.
With that much established, the next question was obvious.
Who had opened it?
Maya brought them the answer the following afternoon.
“We got additional records from the law firm.”
Audrey looked up from the sofa.
Enough time had passed since t
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Between You and the Bullet Chapter 52: The Client Without a Name
Seven weeks earlier.Three days before the first anonymous message arrived, a new matter had been opened at Hawthorne & Briggs.Four payments had gone from that matter to Northbridge.With that much established, the next question was obvious.Who had opened it?Maya brought them the answer the following afternoon.“We got additional records from the law firm.”Audrey looked up from the sofa.Enough time had passed since the explosion that Nathan was no longer confined to a treatment room, but his doctor still had not cleared him for a full return to work.That had not stopped him from sitting in on the discussion as though he had every right to be there, protecting his injured shoulder as he took the documents from Maya.“Who’s the client?” Audrey asked first.Maya paused.“That’s the problem. The name doesn’t appear cleanly.”“Wh
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 51: The Day the Money Moved
The bank records for Northbridge Strategic Services arrived that afternoon.Maya reviewed them first, then pulled out only the relevant pages and placed them in front of Audrey and Nathan.“It’s a more straightforward company than I expected.”“Straightforward?”Audrey looked at her.“What it claims to do doesn’t match how the money moves.”A corporate risk and crisis-management consultancy should have regular payments coming in from multiple clients, along with routine expenses for salaries, contractors, office space, and operations.Northbridge had almost none of that.“It lists three employees, but there are no regular payroll payments. There are some basic tax and registration expenses, but almost none of the fixed costs you’d expect from a normal operating company.”Nathan looked down at the records.“Money comes in only when it’s n
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 50: The Connection Eleven Days Ago
The missing Sterling reserve device had connected to the network from New Jersey eleven days earlier.By itself, that fact still had several possible explanations.An employee might have taken it out without completing the proper paperwork. It could have been moved to another office during a replacement cycle. The device-management records themselves might simply have been wrong.That was why Maya still refused to call it a stolen device.“We narrowed the connection down to a small office building in Newark.”The next morning, Maya spread a fresh set of records across the table in front of Audrey and Nathan, who were still at the private medical facility.Nathan’s right arm remained immobilized.His doctor had told him to rest, but he had already changed into normal clothes and was turning pages with his left hand as though the instruction had never been given.“Can you tell who used it?” he asked.
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 49: Two Gaps
They identified the source of the phone case later that evening.Maya opened the report from the analysis team. On the screen was a black leather case with a small gold fitting near the bottom.“We traced the manufacturer. It isn’t sold commercially. It’s issued with secure corporate devices, and the case itself can’t be bought separately at retail.”Audrey reached into her bag almost without thinking.She took out the device she used for work and placed it on the table.“…This?”Hers was deep brown rather than black, but the leather trim was the same.So was the small gold fitting at the bottom.Maya compared them.“That’s it.”Nathan looked at Audrey’s phone.“Sterling-issued?”“Yes. Secure executive device. I’ve had it since the last replacement cycle. I never realized the case itself was custom.&rdquo
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 48: Eleven Minutes on the Twenty-Fourth Floor
The Midtown building where Victor got out of the cab housed three law firms, along with a corporate crisis-management company, an accounting firm, an investment advisory business, and two investigative firms.That alone was far too broad to identify where he had gone.So Maya’s team started with the cab’s arrival at 2:47 p.m. and rebuilt his movement through the building from there.In the small conference room at the medical site, Maya turned her laptop toward them.The first footage came from the ground-floor lobby.Less than an hour had passed since the explosion at the bank. The man believed to be Victor entered through the main doors without a hat or glasses, crossed the lobby without stopping at reception or the visitor kiosks, and headed directly for the elevators.The camera never caught a clear frontal view of his face.It did capture the familiar slight outward turn of his right foot as he walked.“H
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 47: The Shadow of Victor Shaw
The comparison results came in about thirty minutes later.Maya reviewed the material sent to her phone, then placed the screen on the table without speaking.The man caught on camera across from the bank.Victor Shaw, taken from earlier surveillance footage.The two images sat side by side.Neither was clear enough for a reliable facial comparison. But height, shoulder width, stride length, the slight outward turn of the right foot when he stepped forward—and even a distinctive feature near the right wrist seen in previous footage—all overlapped.“There’s a strong possibility it’s the same man.”Maya still stopped short of calling it certain.“Video analysis alone isn’t enough for an arrest warrant. But this is the strongest thing we’ve had so far connecting Victor Shaw to today’s scene.”Audrey studied the two images.“He was there for at least ten minutes before the explosion?”“That’s what we can confir
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