Once Rejected Twice desired
"It’s forty-two days, Vance. My brain keeps telling me that if I don't look at the metrics, the whole wall is going to collapse. I see the code when I close my eyes."
"The wall isn't collapsing," Vance murmured, his expression turning thick and heavy as his grip shifted from Noah's wrists up to the back of his neck. His thick fingers tangled deep into Noah’s hair, holding him steady. "The Frankfurt delay happened because the German exchange ran a routine server migration at midnight. Maya already cleared the secondary liquidity line from her own desk. She doesn't need your diagnostic patch."
Noah looked up, his sharp features caught in the green reflection of the monitor. "She cleared it wit