Chapter 66 Pressure

***Gideon***

Silence.

Then Vargas speaks again, slower now, measured. “If Kross acted outside his authority, he will be disciplined.”

“No,” I correct. “He will be finished.”

I step into my office, closing the door behind me. The quiet inside only sharpens my focus.

“You have one hour,” I say. “At the end of that hour, Kross is terminated, under investigation, and that hold at St. Jude is gone. Or