To people like Marcus Reed and Victoria Crane, I was invisible.

I was just the quiet girl who carried the coffee and printed the reports.

They had no idea that my father had been the senior auditor who discovered the first discrepancy in the Vale Global ledgers.

They did not know that I had spent the last two years waiting for the moment to finish his work.

The train jolted forward, plunging into the dark tunnel.

I closed my eyes and let the steady hum of the tracks soothe my racing thoughts.

The merger vote was scheduled for tomorrow morning at nine o’clock.

With Alexander in custody, Marcus would have no opposition.

The board would vote to merge Vale Global with Crane Capital, cementing Marcus’s position and burying the fraud forever.

The hard drive in my bag was the only thing that could stop it.

But the data on the drive was encrypted with a shifting security key that could only be decrypted using the mainframe inside Vale Tower.

I needed to get that data onto the system before the board members raised their hands to vote.