Chapter 24 – The Company and the Void

The elevator doors hissed shut, isolating him from the world he’d just left behind. The icy wind from the terrace where he’d left Valeria still seemed to prick at the back of his neck—a whispered warning that refused to be silenced.

Adrian rubbed his face as he walked toward his office. The Castell building was eerie in its silence, inhabited only by the distant hum of printers and the muffled footsteps of employees who didn't dare cross his path.

He was st