“I just clicked ‘Clean Start.’” Those were the last confident words Colin ever said. The screen went black. Errors spilled like blood across the projector. Someone whispered, “Is this… live?” I didn’t move. Didn’t blink. Because I knew exactly what he’d deleted. And more importantly—what I still had. This wasn’t an accident. It was the moment everything finally caught up to him.
“Hand over your work.” Colin Wexler said it like he was asking for a pen, not the backbone of a platform I’d spent four years building. He stood in my office doorway, loafers with no socks, chewing a granola bar like it had personally wronged him. Twenty-seven years old. Soft hands. Expensive haircut. The confidence…