Xavier's phone lit up with fourteen missed calls the moment they got back into cell range, all from Halloran, the last one timestamped less than twenty minutes earlier."Something's wrong," he said, already dialling back. Ivy watched his face change from confusion to concern as Halloran picked up."Where have you been?" Halloran said, loud enough that Ivy caught most of it from the passenger seat. "I've been trying to reach you since midnight.""Dealing with a family emergency. What happened?""A special shareholder meeting's been called. It was filed at eleven last night, with minimum legal notice, and scheduled for nine this morning. A vote of no confidence in your leadership, Xavier. They're asking the board to remove you as CEO."Xavier's knuckles went tight around the phone. "That's not possible without significant shareholder support behind it. Who filed it?""A consortium. Six names, none of them individually significant, but combined they've apparently acquired enough proxy vo
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