I barely lasted twenty minutes in my room before unlocking both locks and walking out.
The estate was quiet and dark, the kind of deep midnight quiet that made every footstep feel too loud. I moved through the corridor toward Harrison’s study, the overheard words still sitting in my chest.
If Vreeth relocated the server before the investigator could trace the credentials, everything we hold against Marcus would disappear. And whoever Damien was talking to in that corridor knew it was happening tonight specifically, which meant the information came from inside this operation, and Damien was closer to Vreeth’s network than he had admitted.
I knocked on the study door twice. It opened in seconds.
Harrison stood in the doorway in dark trousers and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled to t
