Ryder
I started with the household staff first, the obvious place to look given how much access they had to daily conversations, schedules, the kind of granular detail Damien's latest leak had contained. Twenty-three people worked at the estate in various capacities, groundskeepers, kitchen staff, housekeepers, security personnel I hadn't personally hired myself.
I went through every one of them methodically over the next three days, cross-referencing employment start dates against the timeline of Damien's various attacks, checking financial records where legally accessible for any sudden influx of cash that might suggest a payoff, watching for anyone whose behavior seemed even slightly inconsistent with their usual patterns.
Nothing. Every single member of the household staff checked o
