He spent the morning at the office doing the thing he was best at, which was working.
He worked through the Northgate finalisation and two calls with investors whose confidence needed maintenance rather than rebuilding and the quarterly review that his finance team had flagged three times and that he had rescheduled twice and could not reschedule again. He was thorough and precise and efficient and at some point around eleven he realised he had checked his phone four times in an hour without consciously deciding to.
He put the phone face down on his desk.
Dylan appeared at eleven-thirty with the final mole documentation and they went through it together, clean and sourced and the kind of file that left no gaps. Graves had been in contact with Holmes's operation seventeen times in eight months and Dylan had the contact records, the timing correlation with the leaks, and a forensic analysis of the data that had been taken versus what Graves had access to.
