Ethan
The financial profile Priya compiled painted a more interesting picture than I expected.
Ashford Enterprises looked immaculate on the surface, the kind of century-old fortune that radiated stability simply by existing for as long as it had. But buried in the appendices, in the footnotes most analysts skimmed past on their way to the summary page, were details that told a different story. A series of aggressive expansion loans taken out under Sebastian's grandfather nearly a decade ago. Debt structured in a way that had seemed reasonable at the time, given the market conditions, but had since calcified into obligations coming due faster than the company's current revenue could comfortably absorb.
It wasn't public information. It wasn't even common knowledge within most of the finan
