The BluePeak Technologies case was both my litmus test and the whetstone that would sharpen my edge. Victoria had spared no expense handing me all the resources and authority I could ask for, but her gaze never lost that sharp, evaluating edge. I led my team diving headfirst into the endless, churning sea of data. Damien Foster, BluePeak's founder, was a genius engineer, but he was also a slippery, shrewd businessman through and through. Our office stayed lit up around the clock, and coffee was the only fuel keeping us from passing out cold. We flipped through stacks of documents page by page, scouring every single supplementary clause, and ran deep background checks on every related party one by one. The team had started out looking at me with doubt and hesitation, but slowly, their

