After spending $110,000 supporting my family, I returned from a 21-day Navy mission to find my father giving my
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Chapter 49 - The Blood Ledger
Rebecca did not lower her weapon. "Thomas didn't have the intellect to design an encryption matrix."
"No," Cross conceded, chuckling softly. "Thomas was an idiot. But he was an idiot with access to your security clearance codes while you were deployed on twenty-one-day silent combat patrols. Every wire transfer he took from you—that precious hundred and ten thousand dollars you slaved for at sea—went through a cryptographic routing node managed by Orion Defense. Each payment carried an authentication packet derived from your naval biometric signature."
Rebecca felt a cold shock ripple down her spine, though
