A firm managed exclusively by the family trust of Mrs.

Camila Vance.” He let that settle for a moment into the silence.

“And beyond that — the Vance Family Trust is one of the primary institutional investors in this very company.

The woman you have just described, to a lobby full of your colleagues, as a helpless parasite living off your hard work, is not only the owner of the building you report to every morning.

Her family’s capital funded the expansion of this firm.

She is, in every meaningful sense, the reason your job exists.”