Genevieve's move, when it finally came, arrived not through the press but through the board itself, a fact Sebastian learned from a call he took in his study on a Thursday evening, his expression shifting through several stages of controlled alarm before he finally set the phone down and relayed the substance of it to Wren.
"She's approached three board members directly," he said. "Aldric's faction, unsurprisingly — the ones who voted against me at the transition. She's proposing what she's calling a 'shareholder integrity review,' framed as a response to the founding-fraud disclosure, but the actual content of the proposal is considerably more specific than a general inquiry would require. She's naming you directly, Wren. Questioning whether Isabella's disappearance and your — her phrase
