Rain still lashed the city like it hadn’t finished mourning. By morning, Knox Wilder’s world wasn’t just grieving—it was unraveling.
Inside the steel-and-glass fortress of Wilder Holdings, the atmosphere was combustible. The usually composed boardroom—where fortunes were made and power was currency—now simmered with fear, desperation, and a thread of betrayal too fine to ignore. A dozen high-profile board members sat along the obsidian conference table, arguing over each other, voices rising above the steady percussion of the storm outside.
The glass walls surrounding them reflected blood-red graphs as stock tickers scrolled across wide screens. Numbers dropped. Words burned. Wilder Holdings CEO Tied to Scandal—Internal Security Breach Suspected. Market Plunges.
Knox sat at the head of
