The trap began with a single, carefully chosen pawn: Agent Lilian Greaves, Caldridge's most formidable weapon.
As we all know, Greaves was brilliant, obsessive, and driven by a personal vendetta that made her both dangerous and predictable.
Her father's financial ruin and suicide had left her with a righteous fury against those she saw as reckless profiteers, and Darren, with his ostentatious wealth and unapologetic dominance in the crypto space, was the perfect target for her zeal.
Darren studied her, not as an enemy but as a force of nature, a hurricane whose path could be guided. Her strength was her ability to spot patterns, to chase anomalies until they unraveled into evidence of guilt.
Her weakness was the very intensity of that pursuit, a tunnel vision that blinded her to the larger game. Darren decided to give her exactly what she wanted: a trail to follow, a puzzle to solve, a villain to catch.
