"To be fair," Ting Fei said with a slight smile, "you created the distraction. The board meeting, the comprehensive blackmail, his father's public humiliation of him, all of that put him in the perfect vulnerable state. I just took advantage of the opportunity you created."
"We make a good team," Shuyin observed, her laughter fading into something more serious, more calculated. "This changes everything, you know. These shares give me legitimate standing. I'm not just an executive advisor who can be fired, I'm a shareholder with voting rights and profit participation. They literally cannot remove me without my consent now, because I own part of what they're trying to protect."
She stood, moving to the windows to look out over the city, the signed documents still in her hand.
"When will he realize?" she asked quietly. "When will it occur to him that he signed away fifteen percent of his wealth?"
