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CHAPYER 51 PART 1
Several days passed after the discovery of the medical record breach. Ethan kept the matter away from the company entirely, letting Marcus continue investigating quietly in the background while the rest of the staff carried on without knowing anything had happened. No new attack appeared. No message. No photograph. The silence was almost worse than the alarm had been.With nothing new to react to, Ethan turned his attention back to expansion. He had a new project in motion, one that depended heavily on a specific piece of equipment, and he began negotiating with the supplier who manufactured it. The early conversations went smoothly enough that he stopped thinking about the breach for whole stretches of the day."The terms look solid," Marcus said, going over the draft contract on Ethan's desk. "If this closes, the project timeline moves up by at least a month."Ethan nodded, scanning the page. "Good. Get everything ready for the meeting. I do not want any surprises."The meeting seem
CHAPTER 50 PART 3
That evening, Marcus returned to Ethan's office with his laptop under his arm, his expression unusually tense for a man who had spent the entire day surrounded by data."I finished the full analysis," Marcus said, sitting down. "There is something I need you to see."Ethan gestured for him to continue."The intruder did not simply download your medical records," Marcus said, turning the laptop toward him. "They searched within them. Compared specific sections against each other.""Compared what?" Ethan asked."Your condition before the accident," Marcus said, "against your condition after it." He pointed to a string of search queries highlighted on the screen, his finger moving down the list slowly so Ethan could follow each one. "They were not reading your history, Ethan. They were measuring it. Looking at two different versions of you, side by side."Ethan stared at the screen for a long moment, the words settling into something colder than simple suspicion."They are not interested
CHAPTER 50 PART 2
Later that afternoon, Marcus knocked on Ethan's door again, a fresh set of notes in his hand, his expression tighter than it had been that morning."I looked into Matteo's new employer," Marcus said, sitting down across from him. "Something does not add up.""What did you find?" Ethan asked."They did not recruit him for his skills," Marcus said. "Matteo is a good engineer, but not good enough to justify the money they offered him. I pulled the interview questions from a contact who still talks to him."Ethan leaned forward. "And?""They barely asked about his work," Marcus said. "Almost every question was about you. Your medical recovery. The people who had been close to you during that period." He paused, glancing down at his notes as though checking them again even though he already knew what they said. "They wanted information about your life, Ethan, not his."Ethan sat back slowly, absorbing it. A resignation that made no sense on its own. A corporation registered only weeks ago,
CHAPTER 50 PART 1
The next morning, Ethan called Marcus into his office before anyone else arrived. "Investigate the breach further," Ethan said. "Quietly. No one outside this room hears about it."Marcus nodded and got to work immediately. He spent hours tracing exactly what had been copied, cross referencing the access logs against every file in the restricted archive. The work was slow, and more than once he stopped to double check a result before accepting it, unwilling to bring Ethan anything that was not certain. By early afternoon, he returned with a printed summary, his steps unhurried, his face carefully blank in the way it always went when he had found something he did not like."They did not take everything," Marcus said, setting the pages down on the desk. "They were selective. Your original diagnosis. The reports from the specialist who treated you afterward. Nothing else."Ethan picked up the pages and read through them slowly. His jaw tightened as the names on the documents became famili
CHAPTER 49 PART 3
The evening passed slowly. Most of the team went home, and the office grew quiet around Marcus's desk. He sat with a cup of cold coffee, watching the intruder move through the system one careful step at a time.Ethan stayed as well. He told himself it was because of the new projects, but the truth was simpler. He could not leave while a stranger walked through his company's most private rooms.The intruder moved slowly, almost patiently, opening one folder, closing it, moving to the next. Marcus tracked each step and wrote short notes on a pad beside him. Neither of them spoke for a long stretch of time.It was nearly midnight when Marcus finally sat up straighter."He is finished," Marcus said. "He just disconnected.""Did he take anything?" Ethan asked."Let me check what he opened," Marcus said.He compared the access logs against the list of files inside the restricted system. Ethan waited, watching the side of his face. Slowly, Marcus's expression changed. His fingers slowed, and
CHAPTER 49 PART 2
Before Ethan could look deeper into the new corporation, Gina came to his door with a worried face."Giorgio Bellini just cancelled your meeting," Gina said. "The one scheduled for this evening."Ethan frowned. "The investor? We have been planning that for weeks.""His assistant will not explain why," Gina said. "I called him three times. Now it goes straight to voicemail."Ethan stood and walked to the window. He noticed, almost without thinking, that he no longer needed the chair to do it."Ask Marcus to come in," Ethan said.Marcus arrived a few minutes later and listened to the story. He checked the company's accounts, contracts, and recent client activity one system at a time. After nearly half an hour, he leaned back and shook his head."There is nothing wrong on our side," Marcus said. "No complaint filed, no bad news anywhere. There is no reason for an investor to run.""So someone gave him a reason," Ethan said."Or someone made one for him," Marcus replied.Ethan folded his
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