At the time of two fifteen, Chen was in the penthouse.She brought two people from her team and a forensics kit and the unique sense of urgency for someone who had been hustling for three hours and was being careful not to make hasty decisions that could not be improved upon by time.She was brief with Robert and Roxanne. She looked at Dave. Her team set up a perimeter around the nursery, and Dave took her through the results of the security sweep.The door to the nursery was open.Robert was standing in the corridor to the outside.He hadn't been in since they had come home. He had been standing at the doorway in the corridor and had scanned through the door at the envelope on the floor and knew that he could not go in before Chen came in or it would ruined whatever was in the envelope, and he remained standing in the corridor.Roxanne was standing by his side.Clara was with the overnight caretaker in the living room. Far enough down the hallway to keep her clear of whatever this wa

On a Monday morning Robert made a full security audit.He left the instructions with Claire at seven AM. Before most of the building was awake. Every access point. Every system. Every contractor relationship. All external connections to any Zenco infrastructure within the last eighteen months.At eight thirty, when Marcus came to his desk, he was at his desk, and he had the look of a man who had read the instructions and understood what they meant.“The access to the penthouse,” Marcus said. He sat down. “The duplicate lock, the service panel.”“Three months access to the building's maintenance systems," said Robert. “The contractor is in federal custody and was discovered yesterday evening by Chen's team while they were conducting their search in his home”. He looked at Marcus without letting go of his eyes. "But three months means three months of potential access to the penthouse. I need to know everything that was touched. Every system. Every room.""I will have Brighton lead it,"

Dave and Claire traced the executive network breach on a Wednesday morning.Since Chen's team had taken the contractor into custody, they have been working on the access log files for three days. A system level analysis is in progress by Dave. Claire administering access records. They're both searching for the same thing, but from different perspectives.They found it at the same time.It was in the system log for Dave. It was found by Claire in the administration registers. What one had suspected on his own, they discussed together at nine AM in Dave's office, and they were both correct.Service access panel. The duplicate lock. The bottom of the utility corridor is not covered by the camera. Carver's car was spotted three times at the times when the security was at its lowest.It was discovered the all of it was linked to an access point that was created during Zenco's restructuring. A time when some legacy system credentials were temporarily re-activated in order to enable the migr

An offer was made to Roxanne on a Tuesday morning.It arrived through her professional channel from an international brand partnership group in Paris. The group included some of the top luxury and lifestyle brands in both the European and Asian markets. Since Roxanne's summit speech they had been following her public profile. They had been reading the Patricia Osei coverage. They were aware of her independent recognition that was building up.They wished to create a joint brand under her name.Not under Zenco. Not under Robert's. Hers.She was reading the proposal from her desk. She read it twice. She put it down. She picked it up. She read the creative control section three times, because the creative control section was the one that would tell her whether or not the proposal was real in structure and that the language was independent.The creative control section was authentic.She thought about the idea for a long time.She didn't dial up Robert right away.She called Sandra first.

Robert saw Roxanne in a different way at the dinner meeting.It was a Thursday evening. An event for investors and industry leaders involved in the growth of renewable infrastructure. Marcus had made it three weeks beforehand. The restaurant where Robert had previously eaten at for business dinners that demanded a perfect blend of great food and neutral ground.Around the table there are twelve people.Robert was at one end. Roxanne wasn't by his side. She had come from her own offices, and was seated in the middle of the table between two investors, whom she had known for many years, and a woman from the infrastructure committee who had asked to be introduced to Roxanne after reading her coverage of the summit.Robert had noted this when the seating arrangement was finalized. Roxanne is specifically and only being asked for. Not as an appendage to the evening. As a presence in her own right.At the time, he didn't think about it that much.The dinner went through the stages and was f