The independent forensic team arrived Monday morning — three specialists from a firm neither Elena nor Alexander had worked with before, chosen deliberately by the board to avoid any appearance of bias. They set up in a windowless conference room on the third floor, and by noon had requested access to every system Gavin had spent the past month quietly investigating on his own.
"This should have made things easier," Gavin said, catching Elena in the hallway between meetings, his voice low despite the general noise around them. "Instead I'm mostly just watching three strangers rediscover everything I already found, slower, with more paperwork."
"Are they finding anything you missed?"
"Not yet. But they're thorough, which means they'll eventually get to the badge spoofing and the forwardi
