The afternoon settled over São Paulo with a heavy grayness, mirroring the tension building inside the corridors of T&R Enterprise.

Thor walked into the conference room with a hardened expression, his eyes sparking with restrained fury. Celina’s absence had thrown the company’s routine off-balance—but no one had any idea how deeply.

Five employees from the finance department sat at the table, all visibly nervous. In the corner, a young woman clumsily tried to organize the documents Celina would