Adrian’s POV
With everything happening at Aurelius Group, one truth became impossible to ignore. Whoever was orchestrating this chaos wasn’t trying to destroy Ava alone—they wanted to punish me too, as though I had committed some unforgivable crime against them. Every stolen file, every calculated move, every carefully planted doubt carried the unmistakable scent of revenge, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was only seeing the surface of something much darker.
Ethan had resented me since we were children, so discovering he had been communicating with Serena wasn’t exactly shocking. What kept gnawing at the back of my mind was the question of who had manipulated him into taking things this far because Ethan had always been impulsive, but never strategic. Whoever was standing behind
