Silas’s POVThe moment Elara placed Rowan’s note beside the documents we had recovered, I knew we were dealing with something more deliberate than a missing register, because the arrangement of the dates and the careful wording suggested that Rowan had been following a trail long before either of us understood how deeply the second authorization had been buried inside Blackwood’s records.I stood across the study table, studying the handwriting while Elara compared the note with the entries we had already collected, and although I had read the words several times, the meaning behind them continued to escape me. Rowan had written little, leaving no direct accusation and no explanation of the danger he had apparently discovered, but one reference appeared repeatedly in his notes, always beside dates connected to the review of Elara’s file.“He wasn’t merely looking for the person who approved the authorization,” Elara said, running her finger beneath one of the dates, “because if that h
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