Liana’s Pov
The notification arrived before dawn, a quiet chime breaking the stillness of her office. Liana glanced at her screen, expecting another routine report, another board update. Instead, her breath hitched.
Anonymous transfer received: $2,000,000 USD.
The finance team had flagged it immediately, as per protocol. There was no sender listed and no message attached. Just a string of encrypted numbers that led, after an hour of digital digging, straight back to him. Dominic.
She leaned back in her chair, staring at the glow of the monitor as if it might explain itself. The sun hadn’t yet risen; the city outside her window was washed in pre-dawn gray. Her reflection stared back at her, she was calm on the surface, while her heart was breaking somewhere underneath.
There was no one
