~Leo’s~

"Funny thing about trust—it only breaks once, Adele."

I mutter it under my breath as I flip through the folder, the one Blair left on my desk this morning, labeled in red: Urgent. I thought it was another board briefing or some update about Project Pledge.

But no. It’s betrayal. In bold ink. In perfectly practiced loops that look like my signature but feel nothing like it.

I squint harder at the scanned file. The deal is a high-stakes transfer linked to a property in Seoul—one I never authorized, never even heard of. But my name is there. My name. My signature. Perfectly forged.

My hands curl into fists....