a cup of black coffee on Ace's desk. The tempe
. "I need a full M&A risk assessment
delivered it would officially t
d began pulling massive datasets from the server. Her ey
over, his cologne smelling sour mixed with his
laptop shut. The lou
Warren," she said, her
pure venom. He turned and w
elinda stood up to grab the physical copi
e beeped.
en to clear the crumpled paper. Her eyes w
ingers darted across her keyboard, hi
the printed report. She sat down to
d. Her stomach vi
her model had been altered. The
n dollar merger would fail, and she would b
o walk into the CEO's office. There wa
e forced her breathing to slow down, pulling the raw data fro
ang. Julian told
taged report and pushed
r, watching them like a pre
uzzwords, his voice overly loud to
eld up a hand, cutting
ed at D
er in her hands. She looked
risk hedging strategies entirely from memor
not even reading from her ow
threw her printed report onto
t report were manipula
ta showed her user ID logging out at the exact moment she went to the printer, followed immediately by a new login from a different terminal-Warren's assigned station-and a series of commands alt
collapsed into the chair
ked at Warren. He pressed the
Warren out of the r
he corner of his mouth lifting in a barely-there smir
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