Page 418 of Black Reign

Both men look at me.

“I need the year Papa died.”

Xavier turns back.

I isolate forty-eight hours before Adrien Beaumont's boating accident.

There.

An administrative command.

Papa's ARGUS access revoked.

The visible record attributes it to a generic executive security override.

The hidden audit layer says something else.

Same buried signature.

Same sleeper credential.

Glinchesvsky.

My fingers stop.

For one second, I can't breathe.

Papa.

Forty-eight hours.

He knew.

Or Glinchesvsky knew Papa knew.

Xavier's hand settles on my shoulder.

I continue.

I have to.

“Current intrusion.”

My voice sounds different.

Xavier hears it.

He leans closer.

“Sabine.”

“Current intrusion.”

He gives me the data.

I search the same underlying signature.

Nothing.