In just one day, Sebastian's right-hand man placed a thick stack of investigation files on his desk.
Sebastian could barely breathe as he opened them.
The first file covered Elara's high school years.
The crisp text and witness statements struck him like hammer blows to the chest.
Elara had been one of those girls everyone in school knew about, yet she spent all her time buried in libraries and labs. Her desk drawers had been stuffed with unopened love letters.
As for the so-called high school boyfriend, there had never been such a person.
She had no romantic history to speak of.
The second file was a forensic image analysis report.
The intimate photos Vivienne had provided showed obvious signs of manipulation.
From the teenage kissing photo with the so-called high school boyfrien
