The emergency stabilization gala had become the theater for a hostile takeover, executed not through stock manipulation but through pure, overwhelming cash liquidity. Magnus Marlowe stood paralyzed, his mind racing to calculate the implications of Kael Voss’s offer.
Fifteen billion dollars in cash for thirty percent of the company was a lifeline, but it was also a noose.
To refuse the offer was to admit immediate, catastrophic insolvency.
The market volatility driven by the Jakarta file exposure, required an instant undeniable influx of capital. To accept was to become a junior partner in the empire he had built and controlled for four decades.
“Fifteen billion is absurdly high for a thirty percent stake at our current valuation,” Magnus fina
