The least I could do was carry it one generation further, and let these two grow up never once suspecting how close the cold had come to the door.

Chapter 12 — Ninety-Six Hours

Over the next ninety-six hours, from a hospital bed, I watched a man’s entire world come apart — lawfully, methodically, and with the terrible patience of consequences that have waited a long time to arrive.

Locke Global’s master credit facility was frozen by the trust’s institutional board.

Without it, the company could not meet its obligations, and a business that cannot meet its obligations does not last long.

Then Flynn’s own board of directors — presented by our attorneys with the documented fact that their CEO had attempted to financially abandon his critically ill wife and restrict care to his newborn children, all while a governance clause quietly transferred controlling leverage out from under them — voted unanimously to suspend him, pending a full emergency audit.