Chapter 26
CHAPTER 26: THE FIRST STRIKE The retaliation came faster than Lena expected, and far more aggressively. By the time she stepped into Calder–Moreau the next morning, the signs were already impossible to ignore. Market indicators had shifted overnight, not gradually, but sharply. Key shares were being moved at a pace that disrupted the stability they had carefully rebuilt. It wasn’t random fluctuation. It was targeted. Deliberate. A direct response to the line she had drawn the night before. Lena didn’t pause as she moved through the building, her heels striking the floor with a quiet authority that masked the storm building beneath her calm exterior. Employees felt it too, the sudden tension, the unspoken understanding that something had changed. This wasn’t recovery anymore. This was w
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