Chapter 97
The morning had started earlier than Rhys would have preferred, dragged into consciousness at six AM by Phoenix shaking his shoulder with the kind of urgency that suggested something significant had happened.
"Boss," Phoenix had said, his voice tight with barely contained energy. "Marcus Chen was just arrested. FBI raid on his penthouse. They're calling it a major trafficking investigation. This is everywhere—every news outlet, every business network. And it happened less than twelve hours after Ravyn submitted her risk assessment recommending we exclude him from our partnership."
Rhys had been awake instantly, his mind immediately shifting into crisis management mode. Marcus Chen arrested. The man they'd met with yesterday. The man Ravyn had warned him about. The man whose i
