The CEO Beautiful Regret
Except the man on the screen was pale, hooked up to life-support machines, and staring into a Zurich security camera with a look of pure, disoriented panic.
"Who are you?" I whispered, my voice barely audible over the wind.
The man standing in front of me didn't flinch. He didn't drop his hands, and his posture didn't change. He simply reached up, calmly unbuttoning the top two buttons of his tailored shirt, revealing a dark, jagged surgical scar running horizontally across his collarbone—a mark the man on the tablet didn't have.
"Edgar," he said, his deep, commanding voice completely steady. "Shut down the uplink. Secure the roof perimeter. No one leaves this plaza."