Bella's fingers flew across the keyboard, pulling up everything she could find on Umbra. The city's history, its families, its conflicts. Pages of records scrolled past, births, deaths, business registrations, property deeds. She cross-referenced names, traced connections, built a web of associations that grew denser with every click.
Then she started on the assassin's family.
She traced his lineage, his connections, his bank records. She hacked into accounts that weren't meant to be seen, following the money through layers of encryption and shell companies that crumbled under her touch.
The payment trail was clear. A family in Umbra had paid him. Not for Hazel. For someone else.
