SELENE'S POV
The Meridian Capital report got to my desk at eight-forty in the morning. Clara had reported it urgent with a single line of annotation beneath the subject heading.
You need to read this before the nine o'clock.
Meridian Capital was a mid-tier investment firm with a quiet but consistent presence in the city's financial architecture. Not powerful enough to command attention at the level Arden Corporation operated, but embedded deeply enough in the supply structures beneath the elite market that its movements mattered when they occurred. It had been unimportant to my plans. Not a target, but definitely not an ally.
Three days ago, Meridian Capital had begun acquiring a controlling interest in Calloway Data Solutions.
Calloway Data Solutions was not a company most people ha
