Paper Trails Bleed Too
Cold cases don't rot. They wait.
The Lock's file smelled like deliberate negligence—missing witness statements, altered timestamps, signatures that didn't match the men who signed them. This wasn't incompetence. This was coordination.
Someone powerful wanted her parents erased...but who could that be, her late parents were powerful people and I haven't read in any file where the out rule the law, the were examples of people can still do politics and still remain clean! So that got me wondering what could have went wrong,
I closed the file slowly.
And the realisation hit me that am indeed sleeping next to the daughter of the most inconvenient truth in the city.
I Know When the Ground Shifts, and I promise not to let the ground shift on Ari again, I have plans to book an appointment with her Uncle and officially seek his permission to move on life with her, cause that's her only family and her most reliable person, am sure from the moment I start getting involve with her my back has been on the watch by President Gideon,
Power announces itself before it moves.
Ben Carter was digging. Quietly. Carefully. Respectfully.
That should worry me but it doesn't
I didn't stop him, I let him cause he's an intentional man, and have been on my watchlist, for a guy with his lonely background, I know he won't joke with my daughter and has always maintain a clean record, man is as pure as a snow
Men who seek truth deserve to find it—eventually. Timing is the only mercy, Ari already said she's ready so the game can begin,
The Joke in the Office
"Congratulations," Lena said, tossing a file on my desk. "You've officially made a corrupt senator cry."
I smiled. "Tears are admissible evidence."
Laughter followed.
This—this was my sanctuary. Strategy. Sharp minds. No guns. No blood. Just brilliance.
If my parents could see me now, I hoped they'd forgive the parts of me that hardened, but am sure the will love the part of me that never lose, sometimes I feel bad for my Daddy Gideon, he doesn't have family no wife no child, am just all he got and that's why he kept me on a tight hold, I can't bring myself leaving him alone in that big house all by himself with staff that he doesn't even know their name except for David his butler and Margaret the chief chef, if things should work out between ben and I, Uncle Gideon will leave with us, I know he won't agree but I will force him and he can't refuse my pleading face, hahaha,
I had a court case today that I will be defending the client myself, ohh I know the court room will feel terrified by my present cause I rarely appear, I often let my staff do the thing, but this one mmmm am appearing, uncle Gideon directed the client to me.