Ethan
I heard about it before I saw it, Priya calling me just after seven the morning after Sebastian's board announcement had been formally scheduled for release, her voice tight with an urgency that told me Preston hadn't simply accepted his removal quietly.
"He's gone to the press directly," she said. "Not through Webb this time, not through any careful shell arrangement. He called a reporter at the Tribune himself, on the record, alleging that Sebastian's disclosure was a calculated distraction from financial mismanagement within Ashford Enterprises, and that your family used undue influence to suppress a legitimate governance investigation into your own conduct."
I sat up straighter at my desk, already reaching for my laptop. "Has it published?"
"Not yet. The reporter reached out
