“Wendy Sterling.

Corporate fraud, grand larceny, and wire fraud.”

Luca Vance snatched his briefcase off the table and began backing toward the side exit.

“I had no knowledge of any fraudulent transfers,” he said quickly, to the room, to the marshals, to anyone.

“My offer was a purely legitimate commercial loan—”

Flynn stepped smoothly into his path.

“Your written agreement,” he said, with quiet, absolute contempt, “explicitly named Jessi’s voting shares and personal assets as collateral, to be secured under conditions that a first-year law student could identify as duress.

The District Attorney’s office added your name to the coercion investigation an hour ago, Mr.