The Sin of His Obsession
He had refused to play Marcus’s game of choosing between a lie and a half-truth, and he would not let a false narrative be his final legacy.
"The code," Aiden announced, his voice ringing through the quiet park. "The number I used to disarm the bomb is 1618. It's the Golden Ratio, the divine proportion used in my former colleague Leon's original, failed design for the Aeternus Tower. Marcus made the clue a number that represented his son’s genius—the very genius he exploited."