When the police and rescue team arrived at the hidden warehouse—led by Maria Rodriguez, who had received the location from Daniel Hayes (whose motives remained ambiguous)—they found Michael Bennett gasping for breath, Eleanor Davis injured, and William Davies lying helpless. In Capitol Hill, news of the warehouse incident spread rapidly. The vote on the "Patriot Act 2.0" was abruptly halted, its decision postponed indefinitely.
The political deadlock had been shattered—but not because a majority was reached, rather because the truth, if only momentarily, had prevailed. Yet as Michael watched Eleanor being rushed into an ambulance, a strange expression flickered across Daniel Hayes’s face—one that hinted at a far greater and darker scheme just beginning to unfold. And the whisper echoing i
