The injunction was denied at eight-fifteen on Thursday morning. Helen sent the ruling to Aria’s phone with a message that said simply: As expected. The restructure proceeds. Three words that contained the specific satisfaction of someone who had built an argument correctly and watched it land correctly and was not going to be excessive about acknowledging that. Aria forwarded it to Luca. His response: Marco is already moving. Thank you. She put her phone down and looked at her desk. At the north side street outside the window. At the February morning doing what February mornings in Chicago did — being cold and honest and entirely itself. The Morano Holdings restructure was the most complex financial architecture project Cole Okafor had undertaken. Not because the underlying work was m

