The red alarm lights flashed silently across the stone corridors of Cross Castle. It was three minutes past midnight.I moved through the darkness like a ghost, holding a small silenced pistol in my right hand. Caius was right beside me, his long blade drawn, moving with lethal grace. The gala was over, but the real party had just started in our underground vault."Security feeds were cut from the inside," Caius whispered, his breath warm against my neck as we paused near the vault entrance. "Whoever did this had high-level clearance.""Julian?" I asked, feeling a painful knot in my stomach. Julian had been with us for years. "We find out right now," Caius replied. He signaled with three fingers, then kicked open the heavy reinforced door of the primary archive room.Inside, the floor was covered in shattered server glass. A figure in dark tactical gear was frantically plugging an external drive into the central database core. Blue progress bars filled the screen as sensitive family