It was a process I had set in motion and then deliberately stepped away from, the way you’d report a broken water main and let the city dig up the street.

What happened next was between Zane and the evidence and the people whose job it was to weigh it.

I had a leg to heal and a life to restart.

I let the professionals do the thing professionals do, and I turned my attention, for the first time in a long time, to my own morning.

He panicked, and panic makes people careless.

That night the network flagged him trying to alter three financial reports remotely from his home laptop.