PART 10: People make mistakes every day. They don’t usually stake their entire career on fixing them. Scarlett met his eyes. What if I told you I’m…

PART 9: And Mason Reed, who had nothing by comparison, seemed to have everything that actually mattered. She didn’t want his life, but she wanted to understand…

PART 8: ” “9:00 a.m. There’s a diner on 47th and Queens Boulevard. I’ll give you 30 minutes.” “Thank you.” “Don’t thank me yet. You haven’t earned…

PART 7: “Scarlet.” Richard’s voice was cold. “We need to talk about your investigation into Mason Reed.” “There’s nothing to talk about. I’m following the evidence.” “The…

PART 6: And Leonard’s patterns had small disruptions, like someone had edited a photograph and smoothed over the seams just a little too perfectly. She made notes,…

PART 5: Somewhere out there, Mason Reed was probably explaining to his 6-year-old daughter why strangers were saying terrible things about her father on television. She grabbed…

PART 4: Too precise? Mason Reed types at about 70 words per minute with a specific error pattern. Whoever accessed the servers that night typed at 95…

PART 3: And if he was innocent, if somehow the evidence was wrong, if someone had framed him, if this was all a terrible mistake. No. The…

PART 2: Then investigate. Mason stood up slowly. Run your audits, check your systems, do whatever you need to do. But I didn’t steal anything from this…