Dominic’s POV

Power doesn’t collapse in silence , it screams on its way down. By dawn, the city was already vibrating with it: headlines, whispers, the kind of panic only money can buy.

Z-Core Holdings Under Fire, Allegations of Embezzlement and Fraud Surface. Stanley Voss Implicated in Offshore Money Laundering Scheme. I’d spent weeks building the leak.

Each document traced a precise line from Z-Core’s legitimate accounts to shell subsidiaries, to trust funds linked to Stanley’s ...