Percabeth Books Novels & Stories

Plugging the drive into her laptop, she opened the first file. It was a sequence of emails, backdated five years. At first sight, they were harmless polite exchanges between board members of a now-defunct tech startup. But the more closely she read, the more uncomfortable the patterns got. The emails hinted to internal sabotage, a purposeful destabilization of the company from inside. And at the center of it all: Evelyn Sinclair. Ava stared at the screen with her throat tightening. Another file included scanned copies of contracts—legal, binding, and all tracing back to Evelyn’s fingerprints. The dates mirrored the downfall of Roman’s father’s company. The timing was shocking, but it didn’t