Adrian didn’t go home that night. He stayed in the office long after the building emptied, long after the last lights on his floor dimmed into standby mode. The silence around him wasn’t peaceful anymore. It felt watchful like the system itself had begun to observe him back.
On his screen, the same reports remained open. Frozen accounts, restricted ccess, unauthorized xecutive protocols but none of it made sense in the way he needed it to because there was no visible attacker, no clear breach point, no external force. Only authorization codes that didn’t belong to anyone he could name and that was what unsettled him most.
Adrian leaned forward, rubbing a hand across his face. “This is internal,” he muttered. His voice sounded smaller in the empty office. “Someone inside the structure is
