Kade cancelled every meeting on his calendar before they'd even left Ashford Tower.
"If Whitfield had the file three days before it vanished," he said, pacing the length of his office while Lucas laid out what little else he'd managed to pull from the archive logs, "she either destroyed it herself or handed it somewhere else for safekeeping. Neither option means it's gone for good."
"It's not gone." Lucas turned his laptop around, a floor plan glowing on the screen — Seraphina's private office, the layout Mia recognized from the morning Seraphina had summoned her there weeks ago. "I cross-referenced the archive logs against building security. Whitfield transferred a physical item into Seraphina's office the same night the file disappeared from mine. Logged as 'personal correspondence.' I
