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CHAPTER 207
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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
THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE CHAPTER 204 - THE DRIVE NORTH
We left at eight in the evening.Eva drove the first two hours. I took over after that. The road north was mostly empty once we cleared the city. Long stretches of highway with flat land on both sides giving way to coastal terrain as we moved further north. The sky was clear and the temperature was dropping and by the time we reached the coastal region proper there was frost on the road edges.Phoenix was on a continuous monitoring channel. Not talking constantly. Just present. Available if something developed.Hayes knew we were moving. I'd briefed her before we left. She had no operational role tonight but she knew the location and the timeline and if we didn't check in by six in the morning she had instructions.Reaper knew too.I'd gone to his room before leaving. He was awake. He usually was in the evenings now. The treatment protocol had stabilized his sleep patterns somewhat but evenings were still his active hours and we'd both stopped fighting that.I told him where we were g
THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE CHAPTER 203 - THE NAME ON THE SCREEN
The name was Dr. Samuel Cross.Phoenix had it confirmed within an hour of finding the initial match. The two initials and last name initial lined up. The institutional affiliation matched a government scientific body that had been restructured and renamed twice in twelve years but whose personnel records from the original period were partially accessible through a declassified archive request Phoenix had submitted eighteen months ago for a different purpose entirely.Sometimes the work you did for one reason served a different reason later.Cross had been a senior research director at the body for nine years. His published work before that was substantial. Dimensional physics. Quantum boundary theory. The specific intersection of those two fields that produced the theoretical foundation for understanding nexus individuals at a scientific level.He was one of the people who had helped build the scientific understanding of what nexus individuals were before most of the world knew they e
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