Koko moved closer to my side, her phone still raised high, her arm trembling slightly.

“I have the whole thing on video,” Koko whispered, though her voice carried in the quiet garage. “Every single second of this.”

Victoria ignored her, her gaze locked on Andrew’s outstretched hand.

“You think you’ve won because you caught me in a parking garage?” Victoria let out a short, dry laugh.

“I know what you and Julian did,” Andrew said, his voice dropping to a harsh whisper. “You didn’t just want the chemical formulas for the new meat-substitute binders.”

He took another half-step toward her.

“You wanted to drain the research and development accounts to bankrupt the entire parent company,” Andrew said.

The air in the garage felt freezing, smelling of gasoline and old concrete.

My heart hammered against my ribs as I looked at the small black USB drive clutched in Victoria’s gloved hand.

She had stolen months of my laboratory work, the chemical equations that stabilized the plant proteins.

But Andrew’s words made my stomach drop further.

It was not just industrial espionage; it was an execution order for Leprince Corp.