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Chapter 60: The Rot At The Top

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For ten agonizingly long seconds, the massive lobby of Standard Merchant Bank was completely and utterly silent.

You could hear a pin drop on the polished marble floor. You could hear the soft whirring of the centralized air conditioning. You could hear the rapid, heavy breathing of the three powerful executives kneeling on the hard stone. Which was very unusual for SMB, or any bank, even.

The crowd of hundreds of customers, who just moments ago had been shifting restlessly and complaining abou

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Her father found her by the water fountain, tie loosened, looking older than he had that morning."Don't," he said, before she could say anything at all. "Don't ask me if it's going well.""Dad..""I know how it's going, Nina. I've sat in enough courtrooms to read a jury's face by lunch. This one isn't looking at me the way I need it to look at me." He rubbed his eyes, and for a moment the recovering man, the one who'd been getting stronger every week, looked exactly as tired as he had in the hospital bed months ago. "Whitfield is good. Genuinely good. I underestimated how far money like Austin's father's could stretch, even from inside a cell.""Is she actually going to win?"He didn't answer right away, and the silence told her more than any answer could have."The judge granted a preliminary motion during the break," he said finally, low, controlled, the careful voice of a man forcing calm over something that wanted to be panic. "Nothing final. But it excludes two pieces of physica
Chapter 293
Her father found her by the water fountain, tie loosened, looking older than he had that morning. "Don't," he said, before she could say anything at all. "Don't ask me if it's going well." "Dad.." "I know how it's going, Nina. I've sat in enough courtrooms to read a jury's face by lunch. This one isn't looking at me the way I need it to look at me." He rubbed his eyes, and for a moment the recovering man, the one who'd been getting stronger every week, looked exactly as tired as he had in the hospital bed months ago. "Whitfield is good. Genuinely good. I underestimated how far money like Austin's father's could stretch, even from inside a cell." "Is she actually going to win?" He didn't answer right away, and the silence told her more than any answer could have. "The judge granted a preliminary motion during the break," he said finally, low, controlled, the careful voice of a man forcing calm over something that wanted to be panic. "Nothing final. But it excludes two piece
Chapter 292
Her father found her by the water fountain, tie loosened, looking older than he had that morning. "Don't," he said, before she could say anything at all. "Don't ask me if it's going well." "Dad.." "I know how it's going, Nina. I've sat in enough courtrooms to read a jury's face by lunch. This one isn't looking at me the way I need it to look at me." He rubbed his eyes, and for a moment the recovering man, the one who'd been getting stronger every week, looked exactly as tired as he had in the hospital bed months ago. "Whitfield is good. Genuinely good. I underestimated how far money like Austin's father's could stretch, even from inside a cell." "Is she actually going to win?" He didn't answer right away, and the silence told her more than any answer could have. "The judge granted a preliminary motion during the break," he said finally, low, controlled, the careful voice of a man forcing calm over something that wanted to be panic. "Nothing final. But it excludes two pieces of p
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Her father found her by the water fountain, tie loosened, looking older than he had that morning."Don't," he said, before she could say anything at all. "Don't ask me if it's going well.""Dad..""I know how it's going, Nina. I've sat in enough courtrooms to read a jury's face by lunch. This one isn't looking at me the way I need it to look at me." He rubbed his eyes, and for a moment the recovering man, the one who'd been getting stronger every week, looked exactly as tired as he had in the hospital bed months ago. "Whitfield is good. Genuinely good. I underestimated how far money like Austin's father's could stretch, even from inside a cell.""Is she actually going to win?"He didn't answer right away, and the silence told her more than any answer could have."The judge granted a preliminary motion during the break," he said finally, low, controlled, the careful voice of a man forcing calm over something that wanted to be panic. "Nothing final. But it excludes two pieces of physica
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Her father found her by the water fountain, tie loosened, looking older than he had that morning."Don't," he said, before she could say anything at all. "Don't ask me if it's going well.""Dad..""I know how it's going, Nina. I've sat in enough courtrooms to read a jury's face by lunch. This one isn't looking at me the way I need it to look at me." He rubbed his eyes, and for a moment the recovering man, the one who'd been getting stronger every week, looked exactly as tired as he had in the hospital bed months ago. "Whitfield is good. Genuinely good. I underestimated how far money like Austin's father's could stretch, even from inside a cell.""Is she actually going to win?"He didn't answer right away, and the silence told her more than any answer could have."The judge granted a preliminary motion during the break," he said finally, low, controlled, the careful voice of a man forcing calm over something that wanted to be panic. "Nothing final. But it excludes two pieces of physica
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Her father found her by the water fountain, tie loosened, looking older than he had that morning."Don't," he said, before she could say anything at all. "Don't ask me if it's going well.""Dad..""I know how it's going, Nina. I've sat in enough courtrooms to read a jury's face by lunch. This one isn't looking at me the way I need it to look at me." He rubbed his eyes, and for a moment the recovering man, the one who'd been getting stronger every week, looked exactly as tired as he had in the hospital bed months ago. "Whitfield is good. Genuinely good. I underestimated how far money like Austin's father's could stretch, even from inside a cell.""Is she actually going to win?"He didn't answer right away, and the silence told her more than any answer could have."The judge granted a preliminary motion during the break," he said finally, low, controlled, the careful voice of a man forcing calm over something that wanted to be panic. "Nothing final. But it excludes two pieces of physica

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