The Digital Sabotage

The fluorescent hum of the office at 2:00 AM usually signaled a late-night win—a closed deal or a cleared zoning hurdle. Tonight, it was the sound of a trap snapping shut. Leo stared at his monitor, where a background process was methodically scraping his encrypted directories. The high-resolution scans of the ledger, which he had foolishly uploaded to the cloud for "easier analysis," were being mirrored, packet by packet, to an external server.

He traced the destination IP. It led to a private node Vee had set up weeks ago, ostensibly to help Leo optimize his caseload. The betrayal wasn't a

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