could trigger investor panic.
Vanessa needed the marriage for protection.
Grant needed it to maintain the appearance that their financial interests remained aligned.
The original guest list had more than six hundred names.
Only twenty-three people confirmed attendance.
None of Meridian’s founding engineers accepted.
None of the six departed executives accepted.
Most senior clients never responded.
The silence that began with the company-wide invitation had become a verdict.
Grant came to my apartment two nights before the wedding.
“I’ll terminate Titan,” he said. “I’ll announce the recall and compensate the
