SOPHIE KNEW something was wrong before the first alert finished loading.
The feeling arrived quietly, settling at the base of her spine while she reviewed a batch of server logs shortly after midnight.
She had spent most of the evening working from her apartment, attempting to catch up on development milestones that had been repeatedly delayed by investigations, anonymous threats, sabotage reports, and Matthew's increasingly creative methods of appearing wherever she happened to be.
Then a warning notification appeared. Sophie's attention sharpened immediately. She clicked it open.
A second alert followed. Then a third.
Her pulse accelerated.
Within seconds, additional warnings began appearing across multiple monitoring windows. Unauthorized authentication attempts. Repeated access
