.Ares

There’s a rhythm to these things — the quiet before the storm, the meticulous checklists, the officers rounding up people who still believed themselves untouchable. Leon coordinated with prosecutors across three countries; I signed the affidavits that would bring warrants down on the people funding Gideon’s empire. We had the accountant’s affidavit, the raid evidence, the frozen accounts. The only missing piece was the financier who’d laundered Vanguard’s blood money ...