Stan and Zack had just ended the conversation when Stan's phone buzzed against the console.
It was an incoming report from the police investigative team, forwarded through the hotel's legal liaison, who had apparently decided that passing information directly to Stan Harrison qualified as a reasonable use of priority handling.
He read it once. Then he read it again.
The information extracted from Damien and his guards during interrogation assembled into a picture uglier than Stan had expected, and he had already expected something reasonably ugly.
Damien's obsession had a specific origin point: a female streamer named Sophie Youngs. The same Sophie Stan knew, the one Damien had assaulted at that party back then...
Long before the two-hundred-million-dollar gifting incident, Damien had already become fixated on her.
He was a constant presence in her streams, returning again and again, his fascination deepening with every visit until it crossed the line into outright obsession.
