“The rules of a company are a blind scale,” I said, without any heat in it, because there was none left to have.

“It wasn’t my influence that ruined you, Zane.

It was the weight of what you did.” He was terminated for embezzlement, conflict of interest, tampering, and coercion of his staff.

The Greywater matter went to the tax authorities and the state prosecutors.

He was ordered to repay the company.

As I left the executive floor that afternoon, Cindy Sato was waiting by the elevators, a folder held against her chest.