Helena Meridian turns herself in three months into the formal investigation, walking into Detective Reyes's office unannounced on a gray Tuesday morning.
I hear about it from Talia, who receives a call from Reyes within the hour.
"She just showed up," Talia says, relaying the details as we meet at the Exchange later that day. "No lawyer initially, though one arrived shortly after. She's providing full cooperation, apparently. Financial records, operational details, everything connecting Calloway and the remaining network leadership."
"Why now?" I ask. "She could have stayed hidden indefinitely."
"According to Reyes, she said watching the news coverage, seeing the actual scope of what her family built finally exposed publicly, she couldn't continue living with the guilt of remaining sil
