CHAPTER 2 — The Secret Hidden for Twenty Years
That night, Warden Hayes couldn't sleep.
Marcus' words echoed inside his mind over and over.
"You finally found me."
Twenty years earlier, Daniel had been a rookie police officer.
During a hostage rescue, one undercover federal agent disappeared without a trace after exposing a powerful criminal network that had infiltrated politicians, judges, and even federal law enforcement.
Officially...
The agent was declared dead.
But Daniel had always believed someone inside the government erased him.
The next morning, Marcus requested a private meeting.
Every security protocol advised against it.
Hayes accepted anyway.
Inside the interview room, Marcus slid the tiny silver key across the table.
"It opens locker 317 at Union Station."
Hayes frowned.
"Why are you giving this to me?"
Marcus looked him straight in the eyes.
"Because I was never the criminal."
Silence.
"I volunteered to become Marcus Kane."
Hayes froze.
"My real mission was to disappear inside this prison... and collect evidence against the people who built an empire from behind these walls."
He pulled back the collar of his prison uniform.
Tattooed beneath years of scars was a faded federal identification number.
Not a prison tattoo.
An undercover code.
Hayes' hands began shaking.
"If that's true... why stay here for twenty years?"
Marcus gave a heartbreaking smile.
"Because every witness died."
"And the only person I could still trust... was the rookie officer who refused to believe I was dead."
At that exact moment—
The prison lights suddenly went out.
Gunshots exploded across the prison yard.
Emergency alarms screamed through every corridor.
Then a voice echoed over the loudspeakers:
"Kill Marcus Kane before he tells the truth."
Hayes realized, with horror, that the conspiracy Marcus had been hiding from...
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Had finally found him.
To be continued...
