Daniel’s POVI didn’t move for a long time after the screen went dark.The office was quiet again, exactly the way it had been before the file appeared, but it didn’t feel the same. The silence had weight now. It pressed in me slowly, settling around everything, and it made it impossible to pretend that nothing had changed.Because something had.I was still standing behind the desk, with one hand resting against the edge, the other hanging loosely by my side, but there was nothing loose about it. My grip tightened without me realizing it, and the tension settled into my fingers like it needed somewhere to go.Eunice knew not just about Jocelyn. Not just about my operations.She knew something else. Something she shouldn’t have been able to reach.I looked back at the screen, still blank, still dark, but the image from moments ago hadn’t left. It stayed clear in my head, not because of the man she had taken, but because of the way she spoke. The tone. The pauses. The deliberate way sh
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