The taste Of Revenge
My voice, flat and rasp at the same time, entirely detached from the earthquake beneath my feet.
"Xavier..." Gerald stepped into the room, closing the heavy oak door behind him. He looked ten years older than he had yesterday. His eyes were wide, bloodshot, fixed on me with a look of terrifying pity. "The SEC didn't act on a routine audit request. Someone handed them the unredacted Hadley ledgers. The double-booked debt files, the proprietary algorithms. The exact, unencrypted internal records from your private server." The room tilted at the sounds of those words. The massive floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the grey Manhattan skyline seemed to buckle inward, threatening to crush me und