Chapter 20 — The Boardroom

At 8:00 A.M., Linnea and Silas walked into the main boardroom and she set the black drive on the glass table.

She presented it in order: the wire logs, the phantom vendors, the stolen data, the takeover plan built on shell companies.

And then Silas did the thing that cost him the most.

He confessed his own past — the failed business, the debt, the shame he had hidden — and admitted that his silence had let Dorian turn his history into a weapon.

He was not innocent of carelessness.