2025-02-18 22:46:42“What the heck is going on here?!”
“Why isn't his body already in the cremation service center as I had requested?!”
“What kind of poor hospital service is this?!”
Tiffany Raymond asked angrily, her heavy gold plated circular earrings dangling in the rhythm of her anger as she stared into the face of Nurse Diana.
“Ma'am…I can't just pass his body off to the cremation services, we have to wait for some hours after his death confirmation.It's standard hospital procedures” Nurse Diana explained.
The scent of disinfectant and the usual hospital aura filled ward three where Carl Gerald's lifeless body was lying in a fully zipped body bag.
“Are you kidding me right now?!”
“Tell me, who is in charge here?!”
“You’ve been doing nothing but wasting my time! I know you have a supervisor or something, get him or her immediately! ” Tiffany Raymond ordered impatiently.
Cough!
Just then, with that abrupt cough, Carl Gerald suddenly sat up in the body bag he was being covered.
“Oh my God!...Mr Carl Gerald…is alive!”
Nurse Diana yelled in shock as trepidation and shock washed all over the face of herself and Tiffany Raymond.
She immediately raced towards Mr Carl Gerald.
Frantically she unzipped the body bag and Mr Carl Gerald immediately let out a heavy gasp for air.
“What happened…where am I?”
His voice quaked as he spoke, his sight was still blurry.
His head still ached as he tried to recollect his thoughts, he tried to stand up but fell back onto the table.
“Calm down Mr Carl I will go and get the doctor immediately!”
Nurse Diana said her voice was laced with a mixture of anxiety, exhilaration and curiosity as she raced off to get Doctor Thompson, the doctor in charge of Mr Carl Gerald's case.
Carl Gerald's sight was still blurry, he slowly took a deep breath and stared at the woman almost close to him.
“Tiffany?”
But there was no response from Tiffany Raymond who still had her face etched in bewilderment.
Carl Gerald immediately recalled what had just happened earlier.
He recalled having left the building construction site where he doubled down as a labourer after working on his pizza delivery job, on returning home, he met the back door open which was unusual.
Entering the house, he heard his sister Sara’s scream.
He rushed outside to see a thug dragging her into the street while their mother, Mrs. Amber Gerald, desperately tried to protect her.
Carl had grabbed a crowbar to intervene, but before he could even react, a sharp blow struck his neck from behind. He remembered a surge of power running through him as his vision went black.
As Carl Gerald tried to recollect his thoughts, his head ached him even more.
The room was quiet as Carl stood up slowly, his eyes fixed on his wife, Tiffany.
"Tiffany, what really happened to me? Where are my mom and my sister, Sara?"
Carl’s voice was weak, laced with a mix of confusion and urgency.
Tiffany Raymond who was still in shock immediately snapped out of it and snorted indifferently.
“Your mom? She’s dead, killed in the struggle.”She paused for a moment, her lips curling slightly as if the words left a bad taste in her mouth, ”And your sister, I don’t know, perhaps taken away by those thugs.”
There was no shock in her eyes, no empathy.It was almost as if she were discussing an insignificant event in a stranger’s life.
Carl’s heart sank, his entire body freezing.
"Tiffany... that’s impossible..." Carl’s voice trembled, desperation creeping into his words. He could hardly breathe, the pain suffocating him. "Tell me it’s a lie! Please, tell me it’s a joke!"
Carl Gerald couldn't take it as he plopped back into the table.
Tears slowly welling down his eyes as he beat himself up emotionally for not being there for his family.
“It should have been me!”
“It should have been me! Why did I have to pass out and let my mom die?!”
Carl Gerald yelled into the empty air.
His fists slammed against the table, the sound of his pain deafening in the silence. But Tiffany didn’t even flinch.
She simply stood there, emotionless, her arms crossed as she glanced at him briefly, a hint of impatience flickering in her eyes.
Slowly Carl Gerald took a deep breath, with tears still streaming down his eyes.
“ I will find those bastards and I will make them pay dearly for everything they did!” His voice was colder now, but filled with a quiet rage.
Just as Carl’s words hung in the air, Tiffany broke the silence with her chillingly calm voice.
"Well, enough for crying? Now I have something to say."
Her eyes, devoid of compassion, glinted coldly as she threw a brown envelope in his direction. It landed softly against his chest, and Carl looked down at it, confused and trembling.
Tiffany’s voice was ice-cold. "I want a divorce."
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Chapter 783: The living rooms:
The shift from supportive coordination to implicit threat transformed General Carl Gerald's assessment of the situation from possible genuine oversight to probable Directive manipulation exploiting Reynolds's channels and Reynolds's credibility to manufacture pressure for evidence disclosure."Judge Katherine Reynolds, I'm going to end this call and I'm going to conduct independent verification of the congressional request before responding further," General Carl Gerald said firmly, no longer maintaining diplomatic deference to Reynolds's judicial authority. "If this is genuine congressional intervention, verification will confirm that quickly and I'll cooperate fully once I'm confident I'm not being manipulated.”“If this is Directive operation, then maintaining security is more important than avoiding contempt charges that I'll eventually be exonerated from once the truth emerges."He ended the call despite Reynolds beginning to voice additional protest, his command instincts overr
Chapter 782: The disturbing news:
"That suggests they're trying to create legal cover for evidence seizure and for witness intimidation, which means they're concerned about exposure that would follow from operating entirely outside legal frameworks.”“They want to be able to claim they were conducting proper federal investigation if their operations get scrutinized after evidence distribution occurs."Debra Zachs raised critical question about how team should respond to Connor's surrender demand and one-hour deadline."Sir, do we respond to Connor's message or do we ignore it entirely?" Debra asked. "Responding might provide opportunity to gather intelligence about Directive plans, but it also might validate their narrative that we're engaged in negotiation about legitimate investigation rather than defending against criminal suppression operation."General Carl Gerald considered the tactical calculation before deciding that responding served no purpose that justified engaging with Connor's manufactured authority."W
Chapter 781: Finding the new Agents:
"Their approach is professional but not entirely consistent with standard security tactical doctrine that I'm familiar with," Luke assessed after watching for approximately thirty seconds. "They're using proper safety protocols and proper team coordination, but their breach methodology shows some variations from what I'd expect if this was routine security warrant service.”“Could be different regional office using different procedures, or could be indication these aren't actually security despite their equipment and apparent legitimacy."The ambiguous assessment reflected exactly the kind of uncertainty that The Directive would deliberately create if they were attempting to manufacture confusion about the operation's true nature.Before General Carl Gerald could formulate response to the ongoing situation at Chen's site, Debra Zachs interrupted with urgent report about new development."Sir, I'm receiving notification from another dispersed team member reporting a similar situation,
Chapter 780: Agent Kara:
Phineas immediately began technical verification procedures, attempting to contact Chen through alternative communication channels and attempting to access surveillance systems at the remote backup site that would allow visual confirmation of what was actually occurring."Sir, I'm unable to establish voice contact with Agent Kara through normal channels," Phineas reported after approximately ninety seconds of attempts. "Her phone appears to be off or in dead zone with no cellular service.”“That's suspicious because the backup site location was selected specifically for reliable communications infrastructure.”“Either there's been equipment failure or someone is jamming communications to prevent verification."Debra Zachs was monitoring law enforcement radio traffic for any indication of legitimate FBI operations in the area where Chen's backup site was located."I'm detecting no FBI radio traffic about operations at that location," Debra reported. "If this was genuine federal opera
Chapter 779: The attacks on the Evidence boards:
"Third scenario...and this is what concerns me most based on the anonymous contact's warning...is some kind of sophisticated manipulation that we don't immediately recognize as Directive operation but which achieves their objectives through deception rather than through force," General Carl Gerald said.His voice carrying the uncertainty that came from trying to anticipate enemy actions that were specifically designed to be unexpected and difficult to identify until too late to effectively counter.Captain Luke Harrison's special operations background apparently provided insight into this third scenario that General Carl Gerald was describing."You're suggesting they might attempt something like creating fake emergency that forces us to evacuate this facility or to relocate evidence to supposedly more secure location that they actually control," Luke suggested, his tactical thinking identifying deception possibilities. "Or they might attempt to compromise one of our team members thro
Chapter 778: A friend in cloak.
“Yes…we really can trust him.”“He has actually saved my life a lot of times but we still need to be extremely careful…thanks for pointing that out, Phineas.” General Carl Gerald immediately addressed the question from Phineas.The temporary operations center that Captain Luke Harrison had established in the small commercial office building carried the atmosphere of a military forward operating base in the final hours before a decisive engagement…The kind of focused intensity that came from professionals who understood they were approaching a culminating point where all previous efforts would either achieve their intended purpose or would be rendered meaningless through failure at the critical moment when success was most within reach yet also most vulnerable to disruption.The main room had been converted into a tactical coordination space with multiple workstations displaying various data streams that the investigation team needed to monitor during the final countdown toward automa
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