Jasmine's POV
The storm had not stopped. It beat against the glass walls of my office like a warning… sharp, restless, impossible to ignore.
I have not slept since last night. Lydia Cole's death kept replaying in my head like a loop I could not escape. Her voice, her nervous eyes, the way she had whispered, "You don't know what your mother was part of."
Now she is gone.
I stared at my laptop screen where an encrypted file blinked: PROJECT KNIGHT – RESTRICTED.
Ares had sent it to me an hour ago without a word, only a short message:
"Don't trust anyone. Not even me until you're sure."
I didn't know what that meant, but I opened the file anyway.
The document was heavy… dates, signatures, and old blueprints. But what caught my attention was a list of names. Evelyn Duvall, Adrian Knight, Grayson Vale.
My mother's name beside Ares's father's.
