The meeting wasn’t on the schedule.It didn’t appear in the digital ledger, wasn’t listed in the smart glass panel outside the boardroom, and hadn’t been announced through official channels.But it was happening anyway.Rae knew what that meant.These weren’t consultations.They were consolidations.Inside the east strategy suite, the lighting had been dimmed—manual override, not automated. A single carafe of water sat untouched on the credenza. No coffee, no tablets, no assistants. Just four people. Three seated. One standing.Rae stood.The others didn’t need to.She knew them all.Merrick DuPont — Flagship’s third-largest institutional investor, known for being calm until he wasn’t. Elaine Marrow — the shadow tactician of Quinn’s early IPO. And Chairman Yusef Aghari — Jasper’s oldest ally and Rae’s coldest mirror.Yusef was the one who finally spoke.“I won’t pretend this isn’t difficult,” he said, voice low, hands folded neatly in front of him. “But you know why you’re here.”Ra
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