The watch, once properly authenticated by Dr. Okafor's team and cross-referenced against the fragmentary 1974 memo, became the piece of physical evidence the Whitfield-Ansah case had been missing, and its emergence coincided, unfortunately, with a leak that none of the committee's careful, deliberate process had anticipated or prepared for.
Sebastian brought Wren the news himself, on a Tuesday morning three weeks after Emmanuel's call, his expression carrying a tightness she recognized immediately as trouble. "A business reporter has the Whitfield-Ansah story," he said. "Not the full committee findings — something more fragmentary, secondhand, clearly sourced from someone with partial access rather than complete documentation. But enough to run a piece implying Vale Industries is sitting
