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The Ghost Affidavit

Words: 3268 · Source Novel:: Lethal Letters

Nadia uncovers the sealed record of Vinter v. Department of Homeland Security. The asylum claim was denied because a former Elysian intelligence clerk, Sonia Dragovic, swore that Alek had fabricated his political activities. But Nadia tracks the immigration attorney who handled the case and learns the affidavit was delivered by a third-party fixer; Sonia was never cross-examined. Driving to a federal archive in another state, Nadia finds a death certificate: Sonia Dragovic died of internal hemorrhage in 2016, weeks before the affidavit was notarized. Someone forged a dead woman’s betrayal. Nadia realizes the betrayal Alek has been avenging was a bureaucratic trap, and that the real orchestrator was a ghost from his past who wanted him broken, not dead.