The billboard was a declaration of war, and Liam received the message.
The next morning, the lobby of Blackwood Tower was buzzing with it. The news had spread through the tech world like a shockwave. Every trade publication, every financial news outlet, was running the story. Not just the story of my new partnership, but the implicit, damning story of my departure from Liam’s company. The silence from his camp was deafening.
I walked into the soaring marble atrium feeling strangely serene. For the first time, I wasn’t walking into a building that tolerated my presence; I was walking into a place where my name was etched into the foundation. People I didn’t know—executives, analysts, security personnel—nodded at me with a new kind of respect. Victor was waiting for me by the express eleva
