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51. Capturing The Truth
Locked inside the stall, Christopher listened to every single word.Tyler was speaking with a cold, measured precision. He sounded like a man presiding over a board meeting he had entirely rigged."Dominic. You all know why I brought you here, we can not afford to let anyone hear us.Don't let Chris out of your sight. I want to know where he goes, every person he talks to, and exactly where he goes when he leaves the campus. Everything comes to me by the end of the day. " Tyler said.Christopher heard Dominic mutter a short acknowledgement."Seth," Tyler continued. "Take four guys. Tail those five scholarship students. Two per shift. They move together, so you move together. I need three full days of surveillance. By Thursday night, I want to know exactly what they are doing, who they are meeting, and where they are heading after the final school, and when they leave their dorms." There was a chorus of low, submissive responses."Emily." Tyler's voice shifted when he addressed her.
50. The Stall
Chris had been watching Tyler all morning.Not obviously. Not the way Tyler watched him, direct, threatening, designed to be noticed. Chris watched the way he had learnt to watch things at Virell, which was from the periphery, catching information without appearing to collect it.Tyler and Emily came in together and went to their seats without looking in his direction once. That was the tell. Tyler always looked. They walked to their seats and sat down, and Chris ignored them completely.It was discipline.Tyler sat down, stealing occasional glances at Chris, even though he did really look unbotheredWhich meant something was being prepared that required Tyler to appear unbothered.Chris went through two classes and kept his face exactly as it always was.The first break came.He was mid-conversation on the phone, texting with Jordan about the jobs, when he saw it from the corner of his eye. Tyler standing up casually, saying something to his group, and then walking out. Dominic st
49. The Counter Bid
The Brooks living room was not a space designed for discomfort.Everything in it cost something: the furniture, the lighting, the artwork on the walls, and the subtle architectural details that only registered properly when you had spent enough time in rooms that didn't have them. It was the kind of room that made people feel secure simply by being inside it.Tonight it was not working.Seven men sat distributed across the seating, and not one of them had the body language of someone relaxed. Hargrove was on the edge of the sofa nearest the door, his usual composure slightly diminished by the tie he'd loosened without appearing to notice. Rodriguez was at the far end of the room by the window, arms folded, jaw set. The five board members occupied the remaining seats in various configurations of suppressed tension.Brooks stood near the fireplace."I will ask again," he said. "Simply and directly. Did any person in this room place a bid on the endowment fund?" He askedSilence follow
48. Protect Your Family
"Tyler was involved directly," Chris said."Him and his group. They were the ones who planted the evidence and reported it. His father used the board to fast-track the dismissal. Maybe they were used by his father to do the job, but they are also involved." He paused. "Are they part of the case?" He asked"Everyone who participated in the process that led to your wrongful dismissal is a potential defendant or witness," Sandra said without hesitation. "Tyler, his associates who were present and involved, and his father in his capacity as board chair. " She looked at her notepad. "The chain of liability runs from the students who fabricated the evidence to the board members who accepted and acted on it without proper process. Everyone in that chain has exposure.""Tyler's father is a senator; he can simply get his way out because of his position in government," Chris said."His Senate seat does not protect him from civil liability for actions taken in his capacity as a private board
47. The Cover
Chris had been about to stand up and leave when he remembered."The review I texted you about…" he said. "I submitted the formal request to the academic committee this morning. Hargrove referred me there." He sat back down. "Any advice on how to handle the process from here?" He askedSandra straightened slightly. "Did you record your conversation with Hargrove as I advised?" She asked him"Backed up to cloud storage already," Chris said.She nodded with the brief approval of someone who had suggested exactly that in a previous conversation. "Good. That is the foundation. Now keep doing it for every interaction connected to the case. Every meeting, every email response, every phone call, if you can manage it." She paused. "Document the timeline obsessively. When you submitted, when they respond, how long each stage takes, and who signs off on what." She said"You think they will move quickly to dismiss it?" Chris asked."I think they will move quickly to make it appear they have
46. A Smarter Move
The waiting room outside Sandra's office was small and deliberately unremarkable Two chairs, a low table with nothing on it, and a window that looked onto the building's interior courtyard. Chris sat in the left chair and waited.He could hear muffled voices through the door. Sandra's measured tone, another voice asking questions. A client meeting running long.He didn't mind waiting. He had his notebook.He went through his investment notes again, cross-referencing what he had learned from the videos last night against Marcus's recommended order. He made a few additions, corrected one thing he had misunderstood about payout ratios, and added three questions to ask Marcus at their next meeting.Thirty-two minutes after he arrived, the office door opened.A man in his fifties came out, briefcase in hand, nodding briefly at Chris without curiosity. Sandra appeared in the doorway behind him, saw Chris, and held the door open."Come in," she said.He sat in the guest chair on the side o
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