Six months later, the city had returned to normal on the surface. Adrian's criminal organization had been dismantled. Marcus Chen remained at large, but the immediate threat seemed to have lessened. The FBI had reduced their security detail around Frederick and Ivy, and life, for the most part, had returned to a semblance of normalcy.
But normalcy, Frederick had learned, was a fragile thing.
Ivy had returned to running Sterling Corporation, and with each passing month, the company grew stronger. She had implemented new security measures, new accounting systems, and new protocols to prevent the kind of theft and sabotage that Lyra Blaine had carried out. She had also used the crisis as an opportunity to rebrand the company, distancing it from the compromised past and positioning it as a f
