Chapter 146

• Twelve votes.
• That was all it would take to dismantle Chun Kit’s entire operation. Just twelve but the weight of that number pressed down on me like a vise. My mind whirled, faster now, and not because of the wine I’d sipped earlier. This was dread, sharp and sobering.
• “There’s more,” Evadne said, her voice clipped. “Chun Kit’s arriving in New York in less than two weeks. According to my source, the merger deal’s already finalized. All that’s left is the shareholder vote. They want it to be a rubber stamp.”