Chapter 11 - THE BLACKMAIL ATTEMPT
Realizing that her digital net was rapidly tightening, Jasmine made a final, desperate play that exposed her total psychological collapse. A courier delivered an unmarked manila envelope to my office containing printed copies of private photographs taken during college, accompanied by a typed demand letter: drop all internal firm investigations and public accusations within forty-eight hours, or the images would be blasted across every legal blog and social media outlet in the tri-state area.
I didn't blink. I walked the envelope straight to the precinct detective leading my active burglary case. Extortion and blackmail added explicit criminal intent to an already airtight case file, transforming what might have been considered a personal dispute into an open-and-shut prosecution for criminal coercion.
