Chapter 49: The Brother Who Stayed
Silence.
Complete, suffocating silence.
The words seemed to hang in the air.
His real name is Daniel Cole.
Amelia stared at Margaret.
Then at Alexander.
Then back at Margaret again.
"No."
Rachel looked equally stunned.
"Daniel Cross is Ethan's brother?"
Margaret slowly nodded.
"And Nathan's younger brother."
The room froze.
Because suddenly everything changed.
Daniel wasn't an outsider who had infiltrated Hart Industries.
He belonged to this story from the beginning.
He had been part of Atlas all along.
Alexander slowly lowered the photograph of Nathan.
His face had gone completely still.
Too still.
As if he had stepped beyond shock and into something colder.
More dangerous.
"You're saying…"
His voice was barely above a whisper.
"
