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CHAPTER 66 PART 3
Marcus did not stop. While Renzo sat silently at the table, Marcus opened the laptop from the bag and began searching through his records. Emails, payment details, old contracts and personal files appeared one after another on the screen.Lena moved closer and stood behind Marcus, reading over his shoulder. For a few minutes, she simply watched the pages scroll past.Then she froze.Ethan saw it immediately. Her whole body went still, and her hand tightened around the back of Marcus's chair."Stop," Lena whispered. "Go back."Marcus scrolled back slowly. On the screen was an old employment record from many years earlier. Before Renzo had joined Ethan's company, he had worked for a business that Lena recognized at once."I know this company," Lena said quietly, her voice unsteady. "It belonged to someone very close to my family. Someone my family trusted for years."Ethan turned from the window. "Are you sure?""I am sure," Lena replied, her eyes still fixed on the screen. She pointed
CHAPTER 66 PART 2
The news from the harbor reached the traitor faster than Ethan expected.Less than an hour after the arrests, an alert appeared on Marcus's laptop. Someone was logged into the company's system from inside the main office building. It was nearly eleven at night, and the floor should have been empty.Marcus turned the screen toward Ethan. The name of the account was the same one they had been watching for weeks.Renzo Galli.He was one of the company's project managers, a quiet, polite man in his forties who had joined the company three years earlier. He had stayed during the hardest months, when others had left. Ethan had once thanked him personally for his loyalty.Now Renzo was deleting files as fast as his fingers could move."He knows," Marcus said grimly, already starting the car. "Someone warned him about the harbor. He is wiping everything he can reach.""Then we stop him," Ethan said quietly.They reached the office building in less than twenty minutes. The lobby was dark excep
CHAPTER 66 PART 1
For the next three days, Ethan continued acting as though he knew nothing at all.He arrived at the office at his usual time. He greeted his staff in the corridors, joked with the engineers in the break room and sat through ordinary meetings about budgets and schedules. If anyone had watched him closely, they would have seen a calm, confident man preparing for the biggest deal of his career.That was exactly what he wanted them to see.The false document had described everything in careful detail. It claimed that the huge deal would be finalized at a private office in the harbor district on Friday night.It also claimed that a complete copy of the new platform's core system would be brought there on a secure drive, ready to be handed over once the contracts were signed.None of it was true. But Ethan made sure it looked true.He had Marcus book the harbor office under the company's name, so that anyone who checked would find the booking real. He kept his own Friday evening empty on hi
CHAPTER 65 PART 3
For a long moment, Ethan did not move. He sat with his hands folded on the desk, staring at the closed laptop as though he could still see the list of names and dates through its cover.A year ago, he might have shouted. He might have called every employee into the conference room and demanded answers. He might have fired half the staff in a single afternoon just to feel that he was doing something.But he had learned since then that anger was exactly what his enemies wanted from him."Ethan," Marcus said carefully. "What do you want to do?"Ethan looked up. His face was calm, almost unnaturally so."Nothing," he said quietly.Marcus frowned. "Nothing?""Nothing that anyone can see," Ethan replied evenly. "Keep this discovery between the two of us. Do not tell the managers. Do not tell security. Do not change any passwords or lock any files.""If we leave everything open, they will keep taking information," Marcus said, his voice tight with concern."Yes," Ethan said. "They will. Beca
CHAPTER 65 PART 2
The next morning, the problem became worse.Ethan had barely sat down at his desk when there was a knock at the door. Tommaso, the senior engineer who had led the development of the new platform, stepped inside. He was holding his phone in one hand and looked deeply uncomfortable."Do you have a minute?" Tommaso asked quietly, closing the door behind him."Of course," Ethan said, gesturing to the chair across from him. "What is wrong?"Tommaso did not sit. He shifted his weight from one foot to the other, rubbing the back of his neck."I received an offer last night," he said finally, his voice low. "From a rival company. They want me to leave and join them as their head of development."Ethan kept his expression calm. "I see.""The salary is almost double what I earn here," Tommaso continued, glancing down at his phone. "They want an answer by the end of the week. I wanted you to hear it from me first. I have not accepted. I do not want to leave. But I thought you should know."Ethan
CHAPTER 65 PART 1
About a week after the attack, things around Ethan finally became quiet.The police were still looking for the attackers. Inspector Conti called every few days with the same tired update. They were following leads, checking vehicles and studying camera footage, but no one had been caught. The men who had come to kill Ethan seemed to have disappeared as completely as smoke.At first, Ethan found the silence harder to bear than the danger. He kept waiting for something to happen. Every unknown number on his phone made his chest tighten, and every car that slowed near the office made him look twice.But slowly, as the days passed and nothing came, he forced himself to breathe again.He returned his full attention to his company. It was the one thing he had built with his own hands, and it was the one place where he still felt in control.There was good reason to focus on it. Despite the chaos at the end, the technology demonstration had created a great deal of interest.The investors who
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