“My mother-in-law pointed at me in court and said, “She’s faking it.” My husband smirked, telling the judge I did this every time….007

CRACK.

“…an auditor… always balances the books down to the absolute last cent.”

CHAPTER 7: THE RECKONING IN S-412

Chief Justice Arthur Sterling-Vance let out an un-human, animalistic shriek from the bottom of his lungs.

The seventy-six-year-old titan of American law did not look like a statesman now.

He lunged across the granite table, his black silk robe tearing at the shoulder seams, his manicured hands hooked into claws aimed directly at my face:

“YOU PENNILESS AUDITOR’S BITCH! I AM THE CHIEF JUSTICE! I AM THE LAW OF THIS LAND!”

CLACK.

Two SOG tactical operators did not draw their sidearms.

The two-hundred-and-twenty-pound tactical operators stepped forward in synchronized, terrifying mechanical precision:

Their gloved hands caught Chief Justice Arthur Vance by his midnight-blue lapels, spun his six-foot-three frame ninety degrees against the black granite table, and drove his face down onto the stone with three hundred pounds of linear kinetic leverage: