Aria's POV
The morning after the gala, I sat down in front of my laptop, my fingers resting on the keyboard.
"I need to investigate and find the person who's shielding Claudia."
The hidden wolf behind the hunt, Lydia murmured.
Exactly. For years, I had tried to identify the mysterious hacker who cleaned up Claudia's tracks. Every investigation ended the same way: dead ends, erased servers, burned records, fake identities.
The man existed only in cyberspace. No photograph, no name, no mistakes.
I finally had something new that would help me find him... the stolen award.
Unlike everything else Claudia had stolen, this involved an international committee: official records, archived submissions, judging panels.
Someone, somewhere, had altered history, and altering records always left f
