Nicholas’s POV

As soon as the house went quiet at 10pm, I started working.

My days lately have been different.

During the day I was in meetings, on calls, managing the press fallout, the investor concerns and the board members who kept sending carefully worded emails that all meant the same thing beneath politeness.

Nighttime was when I opened the encrypted drive and got to work on the thing that actually mattered.

In my system, the audio files were organized by date and room. ...