Sofia's Files

Two weeks later Atlas initiated coverage with a buy rating, calling Ironvale "strategically relevant to domestic supply chain resilience." The phrase was repeated by a senator on television the next day. Call options traded like lottery tickets. The stock doubled. Blackquarry was not involved. Ethan watched from the outside, furious at his own caution and relieved by it. Trading on Reiss's list would have been reckless. Information from a former compliance officer tied to a possible nonpublic scheme was poison. Ethan's edge had always been public information assembled better than others. The moment he crossed that line, Victor Kane would own him. Marcus noticed his distraction. "You look like a man trying not to trade," he said one evening.