(Adrian)I stopped making calls.Stopped running the credential chain. Stopped cross-referencing the demand structure. Stopped asking Marcus questions I already half-knew the answers to.I pulled a chair to the window and made myself do the one thing I'd been too busy to do since the video arrived on my phone two nights ago.I stopped trying to solve it.And started trying to see it.I rebuilt the timeline from the beginning. The covenant clause, inserted between the penultimate and final draft of the merger agreement. The forced marriage condition. The share exchange, twenty-five percent each, enough to matter, not enough to look like control.The accumulation through Meridian, fifteen point five percent across fourteen months, patient and invisible. The Singapore operation, requiring Sienna specifically. The compromised aircraft. The abduction, timed to the minute after Sienna walked out of Jolene's office. The demand, pre-prepared, waiting.Celeste surfacing inside a shell entity c
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