The CEO Beautiful Regret
"The Sterling Trust has a master lock. When you entered that emergency code on the tablet, you did not just call the local police. You locked the forty billion dollars in a transit vault. Nobody can touch it. Not Julian.
Not the Swiss banks. And not the US government."
"It's safe," I said.
"It is frozen," Vance corrected me. He looked at me with cold, dead eyes. "And if it stays frozen, the global market opens in four hours with a forty-billion-dollar hole in the tech sector. Do you know what that does to the stock exchange, Vivienne? It ruins it. It crashes the banks."
"Good," Dominic said. "Let it burn."
"The government does not let things burn, Dominic," Agent Vance said. He reached into