Chapter 121 When Dreams Collapse

Katelyn’s POV The news on my phone was relentless. Every channel, every platform, every feed still reported the same thing. Rachel had burned all the smuggled software inside the warehouse. Investigators claimed it was a desperate act, a way to destroy evidence before authorities could seize it. Her name was everywhere, tangled in accusations and legal jargon, and the woman I knew, the woman who fought tooth and nail to build something honest was being buried under scandal. But I knew Rachel. I knew how hard she had worked, how far she had come. She would never destroy her own company… unless she thought it was the only way out. I sat in the driver’s seat, unmoving, the engine humming quietly beneath me as my mind raced. The location of the fire, the timeline, the clues, it all circled one unshakable thought. She might be in the old office. Rachel had once told me that place was sacred to her. It was where her dream began, in a cramped, dusty room above a printing shop. It was the firs