The room felt suffocatingly small as Nixus paced back and forth. His mind was racing, and no matter how many times he glanced at the stack of documents in front of him, the patterns on the pages refused to come together in any meaningful way. It wasn't just Evelyn's influence that was troubling him anymore—it was the sheer scale of what she was connected to.
The once isolated incidents of questionable business deals had grown into something far darker, far more insidious. Every lead he followed, every trail he picked apart, seemed to point in one direction: an underground organization with a far-reaching grip on global markets. They weren't just manipulating stocks and commodities. No, this group played a much larger game—one that affected governments, industries, and the very core of society itself.
But that wasn't the worst part.