It was cold. Fog thick. No witnesses.Jordyn walks the pier with no phone and no wire, exactly like the text said — and Sienna is standing at the edge of the dock like the last two years hadn't passed."Who has the footage?" — "Not who. What."What Sienna knows about the drive, the files, and the case being built will change what Jordyn thinks this is. And when she opens her hand, there's a black queen in it — because he sent her one too. Two years ago. With something else inside the box.🎙️ The first full conversation in the series: Jordyn and Sienna, in their own voices.Read along: https://theeastsideconfidential.wordpress.comFollow the series: @eastside.confidentialWritten by Simplee Bree · Narrated editionNext: Part 5 — The Fifth Piece. They weren't alone on that pier.

She almost opened it. At 4AM a second file appeared on the drive — the "what really happened" version — and Jordyn did the hardest thing she'd done all night: she left it closed.

Because before she can trust another frame of footage, she has to answer the one question the files can't: who let the first one out? There's only one person who might know. Her former best friend. Her former everything.

Two years of silence, three typed-and-deleted attempts… and then Sienna texts first."You should've burned it all. Meet me at the pier. No phones. No wires."

🎧 This chapter features the first character voice in the series: Sienna, in her own words.

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Next: Part 4 — The Pier Meeting That Changed Everything. "Not who. What."

The drive rode in her bag all day like a second heartbeat.

After dark, in a locked-down apartment, Jordyn opens the one folder on the flash drive — and finds surveillance footage that should not exist: her, Marcus, and the alley behind Club Hollow, on a night the cameras were cut. Because she cut them herself.

The video shows her holding the knife. But the edit has seams — and whoever made it wants her to fall for a past she tried to erase. Then a second file appears: "What really happened: 4AM version."

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Next: Part 3 — The One Person She Couldn't Call. The former best friend. The secret she never told.

Jordyn Rae's mornings are a religion: nobody from her old life knows her face, her name, or her door. Then at 6:17 AM, a black box appears on her doorstep. No label. No return address. Inside: a flash drive she doesn't dare plug in, a photo from the night she ran from… and a white chess knight, tipped on its side.

Somebody found her. And whoever it is knows exactly how she thinks.

The first chapter of Eastside Confidential — every corner got a secret, every person got a past.

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Written by Simplee Bree (@iamsimpleebree)

New chapters every week. Follow the show so Part 2 finds you first: "The Flash Drive Don't Lie."