Chapter 26: The Axiom Veil
The photograph lay on the kitchen table, untouched, surrounded by silence thick enough to shatter.
Ela stared at it for the hundredth time. Her father—aged, tired, but unmistakably him—was alive.
The message on the back was short, cryptic, and chilling: “I never stopped watching. Stay safe. Trust no one. —Dad.”
Every word carried the weight of years lost and secrets untold.
Stuart stood nearby, speaking with Logan and a new team of digital investigators. Since discovering the existence of the Axiom Initiative, everything had changed. The conspiracy ran deeper than either of them imagined.
What started as a search for answers about her father had become something far more dangerous.
“We’ve traced the shell companies,” Logan said, scrolling through encrypted
