"Tell me," she said.
Nathan's voice was controlled in the particular way it got after several hours in a room that had required complete precision — careful, even, the voice of a man who had been exact all morning and was now allowing himself to breathe.
"It went the way it needed to go," he said. "I asked Ethan to walk the board through EchoTech's equity structure from founding. The original cap table. Every change, every dilution, every new share issuance since day one. Out loud, on record, with six board members and three Horizon partners present."
"And?"
"He couldn't complete it." A pause. "Not because he didn't know the information. He knew every number. But the original cap table has your name on it as a forty-five percent holder, and no subsequent corporate action legally remove
