The fluorescent lights of the executive floor buzzed like angry hornets as Luke Reign slipped through the shadowed hallway, heart hammering against his ribs. Twenty-two, fresh out of college, and already drowning in debt from student loans that felt like a noose tightening every month. Interning at Graves Enterprises was supposed to be his golden ticket. Instead, it had turned into a daily grind of fetching coffee and pretending he didn’t notice the way the higher-ups looked through him like he was furniture.
Tonight, the building was supposed to be empty. Just him, a forgotten USB drive he’d “borrowed” from the finance server, and a desperate plan to sell the encrypted client files inside for enough cash to breathe. His fingers trembled as he jacked it into his laptop in the empty copy r
