Chapter 60: Fight to the Bitter End

"Report!" A middle-aged officer in uniform, with two silver stars on his shoulders, stepped into Byron's office just after Rachel Lynch had left. "What is it?" Byron asked. "The Tres Supreme Card just posted a two-billion-dollar charge." "How much?" Byron wondered if age had finally dulled his hearing. "Two billion," the man repeated, then added, "and a few days ago there was another charge for one hundred million." "That makes two point one billion…" The number made Byron wince. They had...