The Bidding War

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Present Day - Tuesday Morning, 8 AM Three separate groups of agents stand in different corners of the warehouse, each keeping a careful distance from the others. Aria feels like she's watching a turf war play out in real time. Agent Kim represents the FBI, flanked by two men in dark suits who look like they've never smiled in their lives. The CIA contingent is led by a woman who introduced herself as Director Sarah Walsh, with the kind of cold professionalism that suggests she considers emotions a liability. The NSA team clusters around a younger man named Agent Rodriguez, who keeps checking encrypted devices with the nervous energy of someone reporting to superiors in real time. Sophie sits on her sleeping bag, coloring pictures of unicorns while government agents argue over her fut

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