Chapter 31 Nora’s POV Rain washed against the glass walls of my office in soft silver streaks while the city below blurred into shifting lights and shadows, restless beneath the storm rolling across Manhattan. Evening had already settled over Hamilton Global, most of the executive floor emptied hours ago, yet tension still lingered inside the building like something alive beneath the silence. I stood near the windows with my arms folded tightly across my chest, replaying every word Margot had spoken earlier that afternoon; Sarah Lane. Not curiosity. Not a coincidence. Strategy. The realization sat heavily beneath my ribs because it changed everything. Sarah had not stumbled across Elena’s name accidentally during some shallow background search into Hamilton Global. She had hunted for

