Ethan, now in a safe house under light surveillance, watched the summit teaser on a smuggled burner phone.

He laughed once.

“Rebirth? Is she God now?”

His fixer sat in the corner, silent.

“She thinks it’s over,” Ethan muttered. “But the summit will be full of enemies. People we’ve paid. People we’ve planted.”

The fixer cleared his throat.

“About that…”

Ethan looked up.

“We’ve lost them.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean they flipped. Every single one.”

Three nights before the summit, Camellia met secretly with a woman named Alia Tan, a rogue data analyst who used to work for one of Ethan’s shell firms.

Camellia laid it all out....