It was in the fact that a woman with almost no blood cells left in her body could still frighten a boardroom full of powerful men.

They kept trying to switch her off, and she kept refusing to go dark, and Emeka — who knew exactly what a live line looked like when everyone else had declared it dead — found that he trusted that current more than he trusted the doctors’ careful odds.

And so he tore up thirty million dollars, not as a grand gesture, but because you do not walk away from something that is still carrying that much power.

You stay, and you help it hold, and you wait to see what it lights up when it comes back.

Chapter 16 — The Leak

Seventy-two hours later he woke to eighteen missed calls.