Three days after Victor Hale walked out of the Whitmore Global boardroom, Ryan sat in a meeting that should have been routine. A quarterly review. Numbers on a screen. Nothing that should have made his stomach turn.But the numbers were wrong, and the longer he stared at them, the less sense they made."I need you to walk me through this again," Ryan said, pressing his palms flat against the table until his knuckles went white. "Because what you're telling me is that two contracts we spent four months negotiating just disappeared in the span of two days, and nobody in this room can tell me why."His CFO, Daniel, shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Both clients gave vague reasons. Internal restructuring, timing concerns, nothing concrete. But the pattern doesn't match anything we've seen before. Companies don't usually walk away this close to signing unless someone gets to them first.""Get to them how?""We're still trying to figure that out. But there's chatter. Whispers about Kingsl
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