It started with a bug that wasn’t a bug. Auditly’s anomaly engine kept flagging the same IP block—masked, routed, then routed again—circling my dev environment like a shark. The pattern wasn’t random; it was patient. The deeper I dug, the more corporate letterhead floated up: Cross Kaplan Ventures, Jenna’s boutique firm with its artfully scrappy branding and predatory term sheets. The night she toasted “visionaries” and smirked at “back‑office types,” I already had packet captures, keystroke logs, and a timestamped clip of her leaning over a conference table, telling two partners to “strip the nerd’s code for parts and bury her in NDAs.” I stitched their arrogance into a ten‑second reel, cleaned the audio until every contemptuous syllable rang like a gavel, and dropped it into a folder labeled “Slideshow – Ethan & Jenna.” As my father bragged about my brother’s “instinct for character,” I watched Jenna’s knuckles whiten around her champagne flute and thought: you should have checked the access logs, dar… Continues…