THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH
Weeks of careful documentation — the Denver report, the financial trail, Walter’s meticulous records — gone in a single night, along with the man who’d risked everything to hand it to us in the first place.
“Is Walter going to be okay,” I asked quietly, dreading the answer. “The paramedics think so,” Reyes said. “Concussion, some bruising. He fought back, apparently, which is likely why he’s alive at all instead of simply silenced permanently.” Her voice caught slightly. “He held onto this for eighteen years out of guilt, and the one time he finally let it go, it nearly cost him everything.”