Chapter 106: ENGAGEMENT
ARIA
The traitor's name turns out to be Richard Morriston.
Our father's file confirms what we suspected and refused to fully believe until this moment, laying out in careful documented detail the specific ways our father's oldest brother has been working against this family for decades, not in the dramatic fashion of the Syndicate or the calculated corporate corruption of Hartwell, but in the patient, generational way of a man who believed he was owed something and spent forty years quietly arranging to collect it. The file contains financial records, communications, and a final recorded note from Damien that is only four sentences long and sounds exactly like a man who discovered something about someone he loved and chose to leave the consequences to the children he trusted to handle it more cleanly than he could.
