The attorney continued.
“We traced the download to an internal machine.”
Eleanor asked, “Which one?”
He turned his tablet around.
I saw the device ID.
Then my name.
CHRISTOPHER BENNETT.
My entire body went cold.
“That’s impossible.”
Gavin suddenly looked very different.
Not shocked.
Not confused.
Afraid.
I turned toward him.
“Gavin?”
He looked at the cardboard box in my hands.
Then at my laptop.
And what he said next made everyone in the room freeze.
“Chris…”
His voice was barely above a whisper.
“Don’t open your computer.”
I stared at him.
“Why?”
His face had gone completely pale.
And in that moment, I understood something horrifying.
Gavin knew exactly what was on it.
I slowly set the box down.
Eleanor turned toward him.
“Mr. Mercer.”
But Gavin was staring only at me.
Then he said the words that changed everything.
“Christopher, there are things about Halston Capital you were never supposed to see.”
