Victoria’s breath caught in her throat. Her tear-streaked face turned from bright red to an ash-gray pale in a single second.
Act II: The Anatomy of the Trap
Chapter 3: The Audit of Miller Dynamics
To understand why Victoria had staged a physical assault outside a hospital VIP suite, one had to examine the board elections set to take place at Miller Financial Dynamics in less than twenty-four hours.
Ethan Miller was a brilliant software architect, but he was fiercely romantic and blind to the calculated ambitions of his wife. Victoria had married him three years ago when Miller Financial was a mid-sized asset firm. Over the past eighteen months, however, Victoria had secretly aligned herself with a rival private equity group, Vanguard Capital, headed by her former college partner, Julian Vance.
Together, Victoria and Julian had been funneling Miller Financial's proprietary algorithmic trading codes into private offshore servers.