A Fund of His Own

Daniel Reiss was found three days later in Zurich, alive, silent, and represented by a lawyer who told Sofia that his client had suffered a medical episode and wished not to be contacted. The explanation was too neat to be useful. Reiss stopped answering encrypted messages. His wife deleted her social media accounts. The HelixCare documents remained real, but the man who could explain them had been removed from the field without a visible bruise. Ethan learned the lesson with cold clarity: powerful people preferred outcomes that looked voluntary. The next blow came from Marcus. Blackquarry's compliance department summoned Ethan on a Monday morning in February 2022.