Chapter 10: The Hidden Vault
Chapter 10: The Hidden Vault
Abandoned, hunted, and stripped of her digital power, Regina had only one card left to play. She wasn't a billionaire for nothing. She had anticipated that one day, the digital world might turn against her.
She pulled a burner phone from her inner pocket, crushed it under her heel to destroy the tracker, and began moving through the shadows. She needed to reach the Onyx Depository, a private, off-the-books vault beneath the financial district.
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Inside Vault 77 was a physical ledger, an insurance policy detailing the crimes, fetishes, and financial frauds of every politician, judge, and CEO who had ever crossed her path. If she was going down, she was taking the entire city's elite with her. She would trade the ledger for safe passage to a non-extradition country.
She flagged down a passing cab, throwing a gold watch at the driver in lieu of cash, and ordered him to drive. The city blurred past her, a chaotic symphony of police sirens that all seemed to be converging on the Blake Tower.
