Bound by Contract, Freed by Love
Percival's POV
I woke to my phone buzzing on the kitchen counter. It was two in the morning. The city was quiet, but my inbox never slept. A line of messages lit the screen: an alert from Jordan, a flagged item from Corbin, a terse text from James in PR.
“Leak attempt,” Jordan had written. “Unofficial post with snippets from sealed doc. Hosted by proxy. Amplified by bot farm.”
I sat up slow. I made coffee and opened the secure files. Corbin was already awake. He texted: “I traced initial upload. Proxy chain points to three known handles. One ties to Marcellus network.” No surprise there. Predictable, ugly, effective.