SOPHIE DID not call Matthew before driving to Moore Customs and the decision had been intentional.
Sophie preferred preparation, facts, and carefully planned conversations. Walking into a confrontation fueled entirely by frustration was not her style.
Unfortunately, neither was discovering that fragments of her stolen cybersecurity prototype had been routed through a network connected to Matthew's garage.
After six hours of tracing access logs, analyzing telemetry records, and verifying the results multiple times, she kept reaching the same conclusion.
Somewhere in the chain sat Moore Customs.
The realization had followed her all morning like a weight she could not shake. Part of her wanted to believe there had been a mistake. Anything that would explain why Matthew's garage appeared
