Daniel stared at the photograph on his screen, He had been looking at it for almost five minutes. Ethan's father stood outside Sterling Holdings, younger than Daniel remembered seeing him in the old company photographs and Adrian stood beside him. Then behind them, almost hidden by the shadow of a parked vehicle, was another man,daniel zoomed in but the image became grainy. He zoomed in again, the man's face was barely visible but something about him bothered Daniel. He had seen that face before, not in the old Sterling records, not in the security reports. Somewhere else. Daniel opened the file the young man had sent him. The payment record, then the archive access history, and then the identity attached to the temporary account used to access the system. The information was incomplete but one detail had survived, a name. Daniel read it once then again. His expression changed. “No.” He leaned closer to the screen and it displayed NOAH HAYES. Daniel sat back,"Hayes". He
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