Chapter 34: Preparing to Set Out

"$40.8 million." Autumn Yale's voice carried a faint tremor, so subtle it was almost impossible to detect. She stood before the expansive redwood desk, clutching the final fund-clearing summary sheet. Her fingers had tightened around it. The clearing of all seven accounts from the SciTech Ventures battle had been completed. After deducting the securities-lending costs, trading-channel fees, and the $3.4 million base position previously left in the corporate account, the total balance in Continental...