The scattered puzzle pieces recovered from Marcella's clandestine network were finally brought together inside the Arventine estate's secure investigation suite. A deep, expectant stillness filled the room as the digital team uploaded the remaining drives into a unified database.
For the first time since the tragedy occurred, every surviving document connected to Evelyn's final days rested on the same encrypted network. Zeraida stood shoulder to shoulder with Xaviere, her hand resting over his as the server worked through the corrupted code.
Photographs, banking records, forensic vehicle logs, and long-buried messages began filling the central monitors one by one. The ambient blue light reflected off the polished surfaces, illuminating every line of text.
Then a high-priority folder rendered in the middle of the central screen. It contained the original, unredacted mechanical inspection report from the night of Evelyn's crash.
