Trent Caldwell felt as though his internal organs were vibrating with a mixture of repressed fury and an agonizing sense of humiliation. He had anticipated that his arrival at the headquarters of Kane & Co. would be anything but a pleasant social call, knowing he would have to endure the cold stares of his rivals. However, he never imagined he would be subjected to the systematic psychological t*****e of a low-level office clerk. Before he had even caught a glimpse of Ace Kane, he was on the verge of a total nervous breakdown.
Forty-eight hours ago, Trent could have resolved this with a single flick of his wrist, burying an insolent clerk under a mountain of $500 bills. But the world had flipped. His capital liquidity had evaporated, and his personal accounts were as hollow as a winter re
