DOMINIC
Jeremy asked if I'd take the same deal Morrison offered Maya. I realized I didn't know the answer.
Harrison Cole's voice cut through the conference room like a blade. "Maya Sullivan is going to sell. We need to face reality and cut our losses."
The emergency board meeting had been going for two hours. Twelve people sitting around the table, all of them looking at me like I was the problem.
Maybe I was.
"We don't know what she'll sell," I said.
Harrison laughed. Sharp. Bitter. "Morrison offered her two billion dollars. For shares currently worth half that. What would you do?"
The question hung in the air.
I thought about Maya's apartment. The slashed couch. The fear in her eyes.
What would I do?
"I'd want to know what Morrison's real angle was," I said finally.
"Her angle
