Stan and Zack had just ended the conversation when Stan's phone buzzed against the console.
An incoming report from the police investigative team, forwarded through the hotel's legal liaison, who had apparently decided that passing information directly to Stan Harrison qualified as a reasonable use of priority handling.
He read it once. Then he read it again.
The information extracted from Damien and his guards during interrogation assembled into a picture uglier than Stan had expected, and he had already expected something reasonably ugly.
Damien's obsession had a specific origin point: a female streamer named Sophie Youngs.
Months before the two-hundred-million-dollar gifting incident, Damien had become fixated on her. He had used his wealth and influence to manufacture proximity through mutual connections, event appearances, private invitations, and the kind of sustained, escalating attention that lived somewhere between admiration and obsession.
