Get the word breakdown into the room before she can speak, so that whatever she says afterward sounds like the raving they’ve been warned about.

It has silenced a great many women who were telling the truth.

It relies entirely on the accusation arriving before the evidence.

Wendy did not understand that in my case, the evidence had already arrived — quietly, weeks ago, into three encrypted backups and a scheduled release, weeks ago — and was simply waiting for ten o’clock.

Chapter 10 — The Covenant

I forwarded the entire board packet for the ten o’clock meeting directly to Flynn, and he read it in about ninety seconds, and then he pulled up a document of his own and pointed to a single clause.

“Read the senior debt covenant,” he said.