Friday morning brought a brisk, blinding winter sunshine that flooded the executive suites of Cross Global Holdings with crystalline brilliance. Inside her corner office, Ava Montgomery sat behind her locked door, the biometric safe beside her desk open, revealing a thick stack of historical financial ledgers that had been couriered overnight from the firm’s secure off-site archive in New Jersey. Her heart pounded with a tense, rhythmic thrum. Among the…
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