“He believes Willa will take out student loans to attend nursing school.”
“And at zero-two-hundred hours tonight in Washington…”
Aunt Eleanor bared her teeth in a cold, terrifying line of white bone:
“…his uncle, Chief Justice Arthur Sterling-Vance, has convened an extraordinary emergency midnight session of the Supreme Court inside the West Conference Room beneath One First Street to execute the master conveyance deed—transferring forty miles of nuclear defense bedrock to **The Valkyrie Trust** for sixty billion dollars in carried interest!”
CHAPTER 3: THE BREACH AT PARCEL NINE
*KABOOOOM.*
The heavy, four-inch-thick quartered-oak and iron-strapped double front entrance doors of the house did not swing open on their brass latches.
They were cleaved clean off their structural steel jambs by an eighty-pound linear hydraulic tactical breaching ram deployed by an active direct-action assault element from the **United States Navy Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU Red Squadron)** and the **United States Marshals Service Special Operations Group (SOG)**:
