The Apex Gambit

~Raina~

Jess put the background file on my desk at seven AM.

"On a surface level, everything checks out," she said. "Apex Systems is legitimate—registered in the UK, with clean financials and significant government contracts across Europe and the Gulf. Damian Cross joined MI6 at twenty-two, left at twenty-nine, and founded Apex at thirty. Built it fast." She paused. "Too fast, actually. The growth