There was a leak inside the Hale Industries gala team. Someone was building a story, and I needed to find them before they found Isla. I moved fast and quietly.
Within the hour, I had the meeting access logs pulled and cross-referenced with the exact time that gossip column dropped. Six of the nine regulars were out immediately. Three names left, all junior, all with full document access, and none with any good reason to be whispering to the press.
By noon my assistant had run soft background checks on the three of them. Nothing heavy, just public stuff and social media. Two cleared themselves on timing alone, the third one? She’d made a secondary account go private exactly three weeks ago. That kind of clean, deliberate move only stands out when you’re already looking for it.
I put eve
