Reyes's office looks different this time, walls covered with a map I've never seen before, red pins scattered across three states, connecting lines forming a pattern too large to process comfortably. "This is everything we've confirmed since the trial concluded," she says, gesturing toward the board as we settle into chairs around her cluttered desk. "Fourteen facilities became twenty-two. The financial trail extends into two additional states we hadn't previously investigated." "Twenty-two," Mira repeats, staring at the map with visible unease. "That's considerably more than what Helena originally described." "Helena only knew about her family's direct operations," Reyes says. "What we're finding suggests the original network either franchised the model, or someone else entirely adopte

