Chapter 7 - The Extraction
The officers moved in, weapons drawn, but I didn't reach for a gun. I held up my phone, screen glowing with the live-streamed evidence I had uploaded to Colonel Ward’s server the second I entered the basement. The lead officer hesitated. He looked at me, a man in a veteran's uniform, and then at the frantic, screaming Sterling family. I looked him in the eye. "My daughter has been held captive. I am a retired sergeant. That man has the evidence of assault on his phone." The power dynamic shifted. The police moved toward Marcus, not me.
