Ella
Renata called an emergency meeting two days after Kylian told me about Adrian's hidden accounts, and by the time Lucas, Danika, and Renata had all gathered in the study, the shape of a new plan had already begun to take form.
"The timeline just accelerated," Renata said, laying out a whiteboard she'd brought specifically for this meeting, timelines and names connected by careful lines of red marker. "If Adrian's preparing to disappear once the merger closes, we have a hard deadline now instead of an open-ended one. I'd estimate six to eight weeks before he has enough liquidity to make an exit worthwhile."
"Can we stall the merger," I asked.
"You could, but it risks tipping him off that something's wrong, and a spooked man with an exit fund is more dangerous than a confident one wh
