Chapter 3 - THE ATTORNEY’S ENVELOPE
At dawn, I placed my dress uniform in a garment bag, the silver eagle insignia gleaming inside the rank of a United States Army Colonel. They thought I was resigning, but I was reporting to my new command, leaving them to wake up to declined cards, frozen privileges, unpaid bills, and the realization that they had attacked a military commander trained to assess threats, secure resources, and control battlefields. Then my phone buzzed with a message from my attorney, and when I opened it to read the first line, I understood that Ryan and Linda had been hiding something far worse than I ever imagined—a secret financial betrayal that extended way beyond domestic tyranny.
