Julian was reviewing quarterly projections when Damian appeared in his doorway without knocking, which told him immediately something had shifted."Preston confessed," Damian said. "To Richard. This afternoon. Diane Reyes was in the room. It's already moving through the company like wildfire."Julian set down his pen slowly. "Confessed to what, exactly?""Everything. That Marsh recruited him eighteen months ago. That the DNA results were fabricated through a lab Marsh has used before. That he was never Richard's biological son at all." Damian crossed the office and set a tablet on the desk, a news alert already populating the screen. "Marsh has gone dark. Unreachable since this morning. My guess is he saw the Ashcroft valuation leak and knew the whole thing was about to unravel."Julian read the alert twice, feeling something in his chest that he hadn't expected, not triumph exactly, something quieter and more complicated. "Where's my father now?""Called an emergency board meeting fo