The system didn’t notify me this time. It simply acted. By 6:31 a.m., two executive decisions had already been executed under my name. Not routed. Not approved by me. Executed. I stared at the audit log until the screen edges blurred. Decision ID: Offshore Energy Arbitration Closure Decision ID: Executive Talent Reallocation – Risk Division Both carried my authorization stamp. Both timestamped at 03:18 a.m.—while I had been asleep in my bed, alone, thighs still faintly sore from the last time Shawn had claimed me. “They didn’t wait for you.” Shawn’s voice came through my private channel—low, rough, dangerously controlled. I didn’t answer. My eyes stayed fixed on the second line in the log. Authorship Source: C.A. Predictive Node Not a simulation. Not a suggestion. Source. At 8:0

