The heavy oak door to Alistair Finch’s corner office opened without a knock.
Harrison Cole walked in. He did not look like the smooth, collected risk consultant who had threatened Grayson Knight over the phone a few days prior. His tie was slightly loosened, and he held a red-flagged financial dossier.
Alistair Finch looked up from his desk. "What is it, Harrison?"
"We have a localized capital deficit," Cole said, dropping the dossier onto Finch's desk. "Elias Grant just filed an emergency budget revision for Stratosphere Networks. He blew a massive hole in his Q3 operational fund."
Finch frowned, ignoring the file. "Elias was supposed to secure a twenty percent discount on the decentralized servers from Meridian Systems today. That discount was earmarked to fund our telecom deregulati
