Chapter 9

The next six weeks were the best of my adult life, which is exactly how these things go. My collection went to the investors on a Tuesday. By Friday, Kane Group had signed a two-point-four-billion-dollar distribution deal in Asia off the back of eleven drawings I'd made in a room with all the lights on. Ryder put the pen down after the signing and looked at me across the boardroom table in front of nine executives. "For the record," he said, "she's the reason. I'd like that minuted." Everyone...