Adam's POV
The cursor throbbed like a pulse in the corner of my screen taunting me, ticking away the minutes I'd already lost. The document sat open on my desk, my scrawled notes lying in jagged splinters around it like confetti at a party that never even happened. It just wouldn't add up. The figures refused to add up and the deeper I went into it, the more the answer seemed to be before me, laughing at my ineptitude.
I'd been here for hours. My shoulders were tight, and my jaw locked in rage. I leaned back in the chair and let out a sigh that had been stuck in throat all day.
The filing was damning! This was a merger of two of my firm's tech subsidiaries, one of which had a massive cybersecurity expansion on the cards. It had to be air-tight, and I was the final pair of eyes. But ther
