Chapter 8 - THE HOUSE DEED
The house deed contained more than ownership.
My purchase funds came from a trust created in my name before I joined the Army.
Sentinel financed the property and guided the sale.
Legally, I owned it.
Operationally, they selected it.
Margaret had managed construction through a shell company and added the hidden rooms.
Thomas discovered them after marriage.
He did not tell me.
He used the surveillance to investigate Sentinel.
Our bedroom had never been private.
Then Sofia Castellano, my civilian attorney, found an amendment.
If I died or became incapacitated, ownership transferred not to Thomas but to Sophie.
The replacement child.
Margaret needed me injured, removed, or declared unstable.
The kettle assault was part of a legal trigger.
My calm exit disrupted the expected police narrative.
I did not attack.
I did not threaten.
I left.
The camera recorded Margaret as sole aggressor.
Then the internal recording showed Thomas entering after I left.
He confronted his mother.
Margaret said, “You were supposed to make her hit back.”
Thomas answered, “I’m done hurting her for the program.”
A real refusal.
Late.
But real.
Then another person entered the house.
General Brooks.
The real one.
Timestamp: before his reported rescue.
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The recovered general might be another double.
Identity uncertainty spread again.
