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CHAPTER 151 - ONE YEAR LATER
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THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE CHAPTER 210
Holt left on a Thursday.I knew because his handler filed the required forty-eight-hour notification and copied me as part of the operational oversight structure. Standard procedure. The notification was brief. Destination Rotterdam. Duration five days. Contact information for the duration. Return date confirmed.I read it and filed it and didn't think about it too much.Then I thought about it anyway.Eva found me in the operations room that afternoon looking at nothing specific on the screen in front of me."He'll be okay," she said."I know," I said."You're thinking about Sarah," she said."I'm thinking about a lot of things," I said. "Rotterdam is one thread in all of it."She sat down across from me."You've never fully processed what happened there," she said. Not as an accusation. As an observation from someone who had known me long enough to see the things I kept in the places I didn't examine regularly."I processed it," I said."You filed it," she said. "There's a differenc
THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE CHAPTER 209
Holt's first formal review was on a Wednesday.Six months from the date of his temporary operational involvement approval. The committee that had granted that approval was the same committee conducting the review. Five people. A mix of institutional oversight and independent assessment. They met in a conference room at a government building in the city and I attended because my operational assessment of Holt's conduct during the period had been formally requested.I drove there alone. Eva offered to come. I told her it wasn't necessary. This was a specific kind of meeting that required a specific kind of presence and adding people complicated the clarity of it.The committee chair was a man named Adler. Sixties. Former intelligence background. The kind of person who asked questions that sounded simple and weren't. He'd been running these reviews for twelve years and it showed in the way he moved through a room. Unhurried. Precise. Nothing wasted.Holt was already in the room when I ar
THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE CHAPTER 208
The Dalton trial date was set on a Monday.Fourteen months from now. Standard timeline for a case of this complexity involving classified material and a sitting senator with significant legal resources. Forsythe had warned us it would take time and she'd been right and the formal announcement of the date meant the process was moving on schedule which was the best outcome available.Dalton had resigned from his committee positions three months earlier. Not from his senate seat. His legal team had advised against anything that looked like an admission. But the committee positions were gone and with them the budget authority and the classified briefing access that had made the program possible. He was still present in the institutional landscape but he was diminished. Visibly. In the way that people who had operated through accumulated authority became diminished when that authority was systematically removed.Webb had completed her cooperation agreement. Full testimony. Everything she k
THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE CHAPTER 207
Forsythe's office moved quickly after that.Cross spent four hours with Forsythe's deputy that morning. Formal recorded statement. Document authentication process initiated. Chain of custody established for the original framework document from the date of its creation through twelve years of Cross's custody to the moment it landed on Forsythe's table.Eva and I waited in the building. Not in the room. They didn't need us in the room and our presence would have complicated the formal record of the interview. We sat in a corridor with bad coffee from a machine and Phoenix on the phone providing updates from the secondary location.Dalton's legal team had filed a third supplementary document overnight. They were moving aggressively on the scope argument. Building a layered case that would take time to dismantle even with Cross's testimony and the original document."They know something is coming," Phoenix said. "Not what specifically. But the pace of their filing suggests they're trying
THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE CHAPTER 206 - FORSYTHE
Forsythe answered on the fourth ring.It was past midnight and she answered on the fourth ring which told me either she was still working or she slept the way people slept when they were running a major investigation. Lightly. With the phone close."It's me," I said. "I'm sorry for the hour.""Don't be," she said. Her voice was alert. Fully awake. "What do you have.""Dalton's defense is using the program's theoretical foundation to argue legitimate scope," I said. "You've seen the preliminary filing.""Yesterday morning," she said. "It's a problem. The foundational documents we have are the modified versions. The program's own records. They do support a broad interpretation of scope.""The original version exists," I said. "Pre-modification. Written by the scientist who built the framework before the program expanded beyond his intended design. It explicitly excludes forced enhancement and forced control. It directly contradicts the scope argument Dalton's team is making."A pause."
THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE CHAPTER 205 - DR CROSS
The inside of the house was exactly what the outside suggested.Functional. Lived in. Books on every surface that had a flat area. Scientific journals stacked with the precision of someone who filed things mentally even when they didn't file them physically. A fireplace with a low fire burning. Two chairs angled toward it and a third against the wall that he pulled forward without being asked.He sat in one chair. Eva and I took the other two.He put the book down on the side table and took the reading glasses off his forehead and set them on top of the book. Everything deliberate. The movements of someone who was composing themselves without appearing to compose themselves."You're Dr. Samuel Cross," I said."Yes," he said."You wrote the letter," I said."Yes," he said. "I wasn't certain you'd respond. I've been watching the investigation develop and trying to assess what kind of operation you ran. Whether you were the kind of people who would follow a letter from an unknown source
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