I needed to see who had accessed the secure ledger during the time of the breach.

Vincent had been with me, or out in the field.

Aldo’s digital key had been active, but the IP address assigned to his key was routing from the docks.

The docks had been hit by a local power outage at the exact time of the transfer.

It was a physical impossibility for Aldo to have signed the authorization from there.

That left Marcus.

I dug deeper into the hidden metadata of the authorization file.

There was a tiny, nested line of code—a custom macro used to automate the signing process.

I recognized the syntax.

It was the exact same coding style used in the financial templates Derek had forced me to build for him years ago.

Marcus wasn’t just a mole.

He was working directly with Derek’s financial team to dismantle Vincent’s empire from the inside.

My breath caught in my throat.

If I could isolate the relay servers Marcus was using, I could block them.

More than that, I could trace the incoming funds he was receiving as payment.