Chapter 14

Knight Tech's headquarters no longer looked anything like the bustling place it used to be. The energy was gone, replaced by chaos and a heavy, suffocating silence. Every core project had come to a complete standstill because of the fatal bug Isobel had warned them about. In the server room, red lights flashed. The alarms wailed like a siren that wouldn't stop. Customer complaints and claims flooded every inbox. Court summonses and notices from regulators piled up across the desks. Dominic had locked himself in the core tech floor. His eyes were bloodshot as he tried to lead the team through a last-ditch fix. Lines of code streamed past on his screen. The system he'd once been so proud of, the one he'd thought was rock solid, now showed crack after crack. The whole thing looked like a collapsing maze. All the skills he'd been so proud of were useless against the deeper logic flaw Isobel had pointed out long ago. He tried every solution he knew. He even reached for methods he usu