~Nico~
I'd barely slept three hours before the dawn broke. With my position, sleep wasn't a luxury that I could afford. Unless, or course, I didn't mind my rivals sneaking up on me somehow to slit my throat.
The morning sun crept over the horizon by the time I finally settled into my desk, the remnants of my restless night scattered across the surface. Coffee sat untouched in a ceramic cup, its steam curling lazily into the air. A cigarette smoldered in the ashtray beside it, half-forgotten. The documents I’d been reviewing earlier were still spread out before me, a proof of the late nights that I’d spent digging through Nathan’s life and revealing every code he thought was secure.
Nathan wasn’t a complicated man. Men like him rarely were. They were predictable in their arrogance, and p
