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Chapter 9: The Betrayal Within
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2025-11-28 14:12:12
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Amelia's POV The briefing was at nine.Whitmore's team had the hotel identified, a property in Marylebone, central enough to be unremarkable for a business meeting and close enough to Rodriguez's London operation to make the perimeter setup practical. Rodriguez had walked the space the previous evening and confirmed the sight lines and the entry points and the communication monitoring infrastructure.She presented it clearly and thoroughly and when she finished the room was quiet for a moment.Then Alexander said: "Find another way."Rodriguez looked at him."The Zurich timeline is four to seven days," she said. "We have used two of them on the warrant processing. Vane's legal team is active and moving assets. Each day we lose is operational capacity for him to complicate the case before trial." She paused. "This is the other way. There isn't a further other way.""There's always a further other way," Alexander said."Not one that produces Vane in a position where the Swiss authoriti
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Amelia's POV Alexander got into the car at twelve forty-seven.He sat beside me and closed the door and Rodriguez said nothing and Victor pulled away from the curb and we drove for two blocks before anyone spoke."You heard it," he said."Yes," I said.He looked straight ahead.I looked at him. At the set of his jaw and the quality of his hands in his lap, loose but deliberate, the hands of a man who had decided before walking into that pub what he was going to do regardless of what was said inside it and was now in the process of the decision becoming real."Are you alright?" I said.He was quiet for a moment."He believed what he said," he said. "About not knowing what Vane intended for Elena. I could hear it." He paused. "That doesn't change what he did afterward. But I could hear that the specific thing was true.""Yes," I said. "I could hear it too.""He's been carrying that for three years," he said. "Knowing about Elena afterward and staying inside it and carrying it." He look
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