Jasper did not move. The darkness in his office was total. The kind that swallowed shapes and distances and turned familiar furniture into obstacles he could not see.His hand was still on the file. The file containing Kevin Crown's profile, Sarah's name, and his own name listed as a pressure point beside an annotation that called him unaware.The door was locked. He had not locked it.His computer screen flickered to life. The sudden light made him squint, and when his eyes adjusted, he saw something that turned his blood cold.A live feed from his own office camera. He was looking at himself. Standing behind his desk. Holding the file. The angle was from the ceiling unit above the door, and the image was sharp enough to read the expression on his face.Someone had taken control of his building's security system without entering the building."Place the file on the desk, Mr. Doom." The voice came through the office speakers. Calm. Measured. Carrying the same professional patience he

Jasper did not move. The darkness in his office was total. The kind that swallowed shapes and distances and turned familiar furniture into obstacles he could not see.His hand was still on the file. The file containing Kevin Crown's profile, Sarah's name, and his own name listed as a pressure point beside an annotation that called him unaware.The door was locked. He had not locked it.His computer screen flickered to life. The sudden light made him squint, and when his eyes adjusted, he saw something that turned his blood cold.A live feed from his own office camera. He was looking at himself. Standing behind his desk. Holding the file. The angle was from the ceiling unit above the door, and the image was sharp enough to read the expression on his face.Someone had taken control of his building's security system without entering the building."Place the file on the desk, Mr. Doom." The voice came through the office speakers. Calm. Measured. Carrying the same professional patience he

Richard placed six folders on the table in front of Kevin Crown and stepped back. The documents inside them represented weeks of separate investigations conducted by people who had never spoken to each other, never shared information, and never realized they were all circling the same target from different directions."Julian Harrington was paid to provoke me." Richard pointed at the first folder. "The money came through an international financial network that has no visible connection to either family. The same network redirected every contract the Brown family lost in the past six months."Kevin opened the folder and placed the documents beside the evidence already spread across the table. Victor Ashbourne's shipment manifest showing three destinations, one of them hidden behind layers of shell companies.Isabella Hart and Leonard Greene's corporate records exposing fake competition across the defense market. Mara Veyne's recovered footage and movement analysis connecting the scarre