Chapter 52Amy arrived at the mansion the next morning as instructed, the sealed envelope from Sophia tucked carefully inside her handbag. She'd barely slept the night before, more out of excitement at being trusted with something than any real sense of importance attached to the errand itself.Sophia met her in the entryway, already dressed for the day, checking her phone as Amy approached."Good, you're here," Sophia said, barely glancing up. "The address is on the envelope. Just hand it directly to whoever answers, don't leave it with anyone else.""Got it," Amy said, patting her bag reassuringly. "I'll head there now.""Thank you," Sophia said, already turning away, her attention elsewhere before Amy had even reached the door.Judy arrived just as Amy was leaving, breezing past her with barely a glance. "Oh, you're still here. I thought you'd have run your little errand by now.""I'm heading there now," Amy said."Good." Judy didn't slow down, alr

Chapter 54Jackson stayed late again, the office quiet except for the hum of the servers somewhere behind the walls. He'd spent the day chasing three more names Theo had flagged, each one dissolving into a dead end the same way Dolan and Reyes had before them. Frustration had settled into something closer to exhaustion by the time he finally allowed himself to circle back to the theory he'd been avoiding all week.He pulled up Vincent's file again, studying the photo longer this time, forcing himself to look past the obvious differences and consider what months of resentment and reduced circumstances might have changed about a person.The build in the footage was leaner than Jackson remembered, but people lost weight under stress, especially the kind of stress that came from watching your career shrink in front of colleagues who used to answer to you. He pulled up older footage from Vincent's time as team leader, years back, comparing his posture then against the posture