Cole’s POV

By the time the crisis fully detonates, it feels less like a single explosion and more like a slow, relentless collapse that starts deep inside the structure of the company and spreads outward with surgical precision, touching everything I have spent years building, poisoning trust, destabilizing alliances, and dragging my full attention away from home at a time when I would much rather be anywhere else but here. Someone leaked the files. Not rumors, not speculation, not ...