ALESSIO’S POV
The quiet after a public storm is never real quiet.
It is observation.
It is calculation.
It is enemies adjusting their aim.
Three days after the press conference the numbers stabilized, investors calmed, the board returned to their usual routines. On the surface everything appeared steady.
I knew better.
Power does not like to be challenged and I had challenged it publicly.
The board voted confidence, yes. But confidence born from pressure is fragile. There were those who supported me because it was safer than opposing me in that moment. There were those who abstained because they were waiting. And there were those who opposed me outright.
I respect open opposition.
It is the silent resentment that interests me.
I stood in my office early Monday morning reviewing
