Part 2 The dinner continued in fragments after that, awkward conversations sprouting up like weeds trying to cover broken ground. Megan stayed rigid in her…

“Rookie mistake,” Marcus said with a sigh. “But all isn’t lost. Document everything—when you started development, what specific proprietary elements you created, timestamps of code…

“Exactly. I have evidence of the affair and their plans. I don’t want revenge. I just want what’s rightfully mine.” Patricia tapped her pen against…

But it was Luis Ramírez who was the most furious. The head of security couldn’t forget the image of Isabel, soaked and trembling. In his…

She had thought it was just his way of talking about grief, about being free from the pain of watching him die. Now she wondered…

Piper Crumbvida had shouldered her heavy pack, complete with a blue backpack and a green foam sleeping pad, and walked into the vastness of the…

On the ice, the teams moved methodically, roped together, the tension visible in their movements. They used long poles to probe the snowpack for hidden…

For the first time, something flickered in Finch’s pale eyes. Not sympathy, exactly; more like the distant recognition that he was looking at a human…

The baked earth offered no forgiveness. It stretched under a pale, hostile sky, a tapestry of cracks woven through with the ghosts of grass. Amos…

The first tree’s final groan was terrifying. It seemed for an instant as though the whole ravine were cracking open. Then it fell, and the…