She holds most of the institutional capital in this city — including the seventy-five-million-dollar facility that is currently the only thing standing between your company and bankruptcy.”

His mind simply stopped.

I watched it happen — watched his eyes move from my suit to the ring to the row of lawyers behind me and fail, at each stop, to make the arithmetic come out.

“No,” he said.

“That’s not possible.

You’re a PR assistant.