The answer came faster than Amelia expected, and it came in the worst possible way.
She was still in Daniel's office at nine the next morning, coffee gone cold beside a legal pad covered in notes from their debrief, when her phone buzzed with an alert from Priya's security team. She read it twice before the words fully registered.
Green Strategies servers — unauthorized access detected 11:47 PM. Breach originated from Daniel Osei's credentials, active AFTER he met with you.
Her stomach dropped through the floor.
"That's impossible," she said, already moving, already dialing Priya as she crossed the office at a near-run. "He was with me until almost eight. I walked him out myself."
"I believe you," Priya said when she picked up, her voice tight in a way that made the hair on Amelia's a
