Chapter 28: The Founding Member
The room became impossibly quiet.
Nobody breathed.
Nobody moved.
The words on the screen remained unchanged.
PROJECT ATLAS — FOUNDING MEMBER
Charles Hart
Amelia stared at the monitor.
Certain she was reading it wrong.
Certain there had to be a mistake.
A duplicate name.
A forged record.
Anything.
But the file remained exactly the same.
Her father's name.
At the very beginning.
At the foundation of Project Atlas.
"No."
The whisper escaped her lips.
Rachel slowly sat back down.
"This has to be fake."
Claire looked uncomfortable.
"I checked the metadata."
The room turned toward her.
"It predates every other Atlas file."
Amelia's stomach twisted.
"What does that mean?"
Claire swallowed.
"It means this record was created when Project A
