Adaeze's piece went live at six the next morning, three years of reporting compressed into a single, carefully structured story — the raid, Felix and Adaora's reunion, Teo's account of the propaganda room, and, for the first time in print, the name of the man believed dead who had been running the parallel program for eight years.
Within an hour, national outlets had picked it up. By noon, Hunter's phone hadn't stopped buzzing with calls he didn't answer, texts from people he barely remembered giving his number to, and one message from the federal liaison that cut through everything else.
We moved on his last known address the second the story hit. He's gone. Cleared out hours before we arrived.
Hunter called him immediately. "Hours before. How would he know to leave hours before a stor
