The manila folder sat on the interrogation table, unopened for six hours. Rook stared at it, the weight of what it contained pressing down on him like something that had been waiting for this exact moment.
Irina's confession had been thorough. She'd detailed every operation, every manipulation, every life she'd sacrificed in service of her vision. But she'd also left something behind—a contingency plan that had been designed to activate if she was ever captured.
Wick had found it buried in the data, hidden beneath layers of encryption that had taken her days to crack. The plan was simple, elegant, and devastating: a series of dead man's switches that would release classified information across the globe, exposing the remaining networks and destroying what was left of the new system.
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