Enemy With Tomorrow
"And you built a company around it."
"I built a company around making it less dangerous."
"That is a beautiful sentence for a terrible thing."
He flinched because it was fair.
Nora stepped closer. "Did you use me?"
"Yes."
The answer hurt both of them.
"Did you care that you were using me?"
"Yes."
That hurt worse.
For a moment, the stairwell held all the things they could not afford: anger, attraction, betrayal, understanding. Then her phone buzzed. She looked down.
"Sloane just called three prime brokers," she said. "He is unwinding part of his book."
At 4:07, Ethan's digest expanded.
1. Horizon Gate attempts to exploit received signal; misreads event as market crash.
