Chapter 10 - Fugitive Status
I was now the most wanted man in the state. Every news channel was running my face: Special Ops Veteran Snaps, Murders Family, Flees Police.
I hid out in a cheap motel under an assumed name, stitching up a deep cut on my arm from the warehouse window. I needed proof. Eleanor was smart, but she wasn't a ghost. If Greg embezzled the money, there had to be a paper trail.
I pulled out my encrypted laptop and hacked into Clara's cloud storage. It took hours of bypassing firewalls, but I found the hidden folder she had created before she died. Project Icarus.
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Inside were bank statements, wire transfers, and emails. But what I found shook me to my core. Greg wasn't acting alone. He was funneling the money into an offshore account owned by someone else.
The name on the account wasn't Eleanor. It was Sarah. Greg’s terrified, weeping wife.
