Chapter 5 - Someone Deleted Nathan’s Messages
Nathan’s technology team found forwarding rules inside his private
email.
Messages containing Rosa’s name, the children’s names, or phrases such
as west wing and Vanessa were automatically routed into an archive
folder.
Some were deleted.
The rules had been created from a device authenticated through Nathan’s
executive office.
His assistant, Colin Mercer, denied doing it.
Then access logs showed repeated logins from Aspen.
A laptop assigned to Colin had been kept in Nathan’s home office for
travel emergencies.
Vanessa knew the password.
But someone else knew it too.
Colin admitted he had shared credentials with Nathan’s household
administrator, Peter Shaw, after Vanessa complained that she needed
easier access to scheduling.
Nathan closed his eyes.
He had built Caldwell Systems around cybersecurity.
Yet inside his own house, convenience had defeated every boundary.
He changed every credential.
Preserved the logs.
Removed Vanessa and Peter from financial access.
Then he asked security for six months of estate camera footage.
Peter told him there was a problem.
“The west-wing cameras haven’t worked since July.”
Nathan looked at him.
“Who reported the outage?”
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Peter swallowed.
“No one.”
