Chapter 6 - The Woman Who Knew Too MuchElena spent the next week recovering.
Her physical injuries were healing.
Her emotional wounds were slower.
At night, she sometimes woke from nightmares convinced she was falling again.
Julian would immediately wake beside her.
"I'm here."
She would grip his shirt.
"I heard the stairs."
"I know."
"I couldn't stop myself."
"You don't have to stop anything anymore."
But Julian himself wasn't sleeping.
Claire's final words haunted him.
You think this ends with me?
Marcus investigated.
Three days later, he returned with troubling news.
Claire had been communicating with someone outside the company.
Someone whose identity had been carefully concealed.
The messages suggested that Claire wasn't the architect of the entire scheme.
She had been working with another person.
Someone who had access to Sterling-Vance's deepest financial systems.
Julian stared at the evidence.
"Who?"
Marcus shook his head.
"We don't know yet."
Then Elena spoke from the doorway.
"I do."
They turned.
She held an old photograph.
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And Julian immediately recognized the man standing beside Claire.
His own older brother.
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