MARCUS'S POV
The first thing was small enough to miss.
He almost did.
It was a Tuesday. Three weeks after the engagement. He was doing his standard morning sweep of the estate's digital infrastructure.....routine, the kind of thing he did every day without variation,,,,when he caught a flag on Aria's hospital server access.
Not her access. An access attempt on her files.
Brief. Clean. Whoever had done it had known what they were doing....they'd gone in through a back channel that most security systems wouldn't have flagged, had touched two files and pulled back before anything triggered. If Marcus hadn't built the monitoring himself, hadn't written every line of the alert protocol personally, he'd have missed it entirely.
He sat forward.
He pulled the trace.
