Chapter 10

I stood in my kitchen, phone still pressed to my ear, listening to the silence after the call ended. Not clean. Two words designed to detonate everything I'd built. I set the phone down and forced myself to breathe. Then I called Priya. "I need you to pull every document related to the Aether acquisition. Every email, every contract, every due diligence report. Everything." "Gemma, it's midnight—" "Now, Priya." She heard something in my voice that stopped all argument. "On it." Then...