The billionaire had thirty seconds to convince Elena Cross not to publish his downfall.He spent the first twenty-seven telling her she was wrong.That was a mistake.Elena clicked the stopwatch on her phone.00:27.Adrian Vale sat opposite her in the private dining room of the Meridian Hotel, perfectly composed in a charcoal suit that probably cost more than her car.He hadn't touched his coffee.Neither had she.Outside the glass wall, Accra glittered beneath the evening sky. Traffic crawled along the road below, headlights sliding through the darkness like streams of molten gold.Inside, there were only two people.An investigative journalist.And the man whose name dominated her investigation."Your article contains three factual errors," Adrian said.Elena smiled."Four."His eyebrow moved slightly.She tapped the folder between them."The fourth is deliberate.""Why?""Because I wanted to see if you'd notice."For the first time, something resembling amusement appeared in his ey
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