Chapter 121. Elizabeth Garcia

Third-Person POV

The polished desk felt cold beneath Alisha's trembling fingertips as she stared at the file spread before her like evidence of a crime she'd unknowingly helped commit. The afternoon sunlight streaming through Elizabeth's office windows seemed to mock the darkness of what lay within those pages.

She read it once. Twice. Three times, each reading making her stomach churn with increasing violence. Vanessa's hospital records. Police reports from the attack at Vanessa's home, complete with crime scene photographs that made bile rise in her throat. Blood spatter analysis. Broken glass. Evidence of a struggle that could have ended in death.

Why would Elizabeth have all of this in her personal files?

The answer hit her like a physical blow. The case had been compromised from the beginning, manipulated by someone with enough power to access confidential police records and medical files.

Nausea rolled through her gut in waves. Sh