My fingers trail across the polished surface of my desk as I circle to my chair, feeling the cool wood ground me in the present moment. The computer wakes at my touch, the screen illuminating with a blue glow that paints my skin in artificial moonlight. I enter my password, then a secondary authentication code, and finally a biometric scan that reads the unique pattern of my retina. The firm's most secure database requires triple verification—a security measure I insisted upon when we first established the digital architecture.
How ironic that the very safeguards I created to protect our clients may now be my salvation.
The financial database opens before me, a labyrinth of numbers and accounts I know intimately. I navigate through client files with practiced efficiency, focusing on thos
