The sky outside Damien’s penthouse had turned gray… violet… threatening rain.
Gabriel stood alone in the surveillance room two floors down… the glow of ten different monitors casting hard lines across his face. His jaw was set… a pen tapping rhythmically against his forearm. His eyes weren’t just scanning data anymore. They were hunting.
Line by line… name by name.
His hands moved fast… hacking deeper into encrypted servers linked to Virex’s overseas accounts. He had bypassed four firewalls in the last twenty minutes. What he found behind the fifth one made him pause.
A list.
Just one column.
But it wasn’t of holdings or assets.
It was names.
All of them tied to Damien Cross.
Board members. Former allies. Investors. One name after another… some already dead. Some recently gone sil
