The Unspoken Accord
“This stays in this room. Tunde died of a stroke. A family tragedy. We deal with his allies quietly, surgically.”
“Or,” Mimi said, “we burn it all down. We take this public. Expose The Iron Circle, the conspiracy. It would be a scandal that could shatter the company.”
“And it would make our child a target forever,” William replied, the CEO and the protector at war. “A symbol of a war we’d be declaring on a hidden network of powerful, fanatical people.”
The decision hung in the balance.
Kunle, working remotely from a now ultra-secure location, had decrypted the USB drives. The first contained the full “Benefactor” correspondence, a legal nail in a coffin already buried.