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Chapter 58

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Leon’s POV.

The full report came in before sunrise.

It was sitting in my inbox with the subject line: Primary Findings: Phase One - URGENT.

I sat in my office, the only light coming from my computer’s screen. I scanned the first two pages, and it told me everything I needed to know.

This wasn’t a random outburst of spite or some desperate act driven by simple jealousy—No. It was deliberate, methodical, and driven by nothing but pure hate.

There was no question about it; this was an attempt to end not one, but two lives.

My private team had pulled encrypted communications from Dana—Dahlia’s mother—using her secondary phone. She’d been communicating with an offshore alias that was heavily protected and incredibly difficult to trace. But they’d managed to isolate a few message timestamps that lined up with known events in the timeline.

The release of the edited reunion video.

The first wave of bot-fueled social media comments.

The bakery delivery.

The same phone had accessed a digital sm
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