Sofia's Files

"You want him too much," Sofia told Ethan after he tried to force significance onto a weak cluster of trades. They were sitting in a library reading room because Sofia trusted old buildings with bad Wi-Fi. "Wanting does not change the timestamps," Ethan said. "It changes which timestamps you stare at." He closed the laptop. "You're saying I'm biased." "I'm saying you are human, despite rumors at your fund." That annoyed him more than it should have because she was right. The more he studied Victor Kane, the more the man became a symbol of everything Ethan hated about Wall Street: the laundering of self-interest through civic language, the conversion of access into virtue, the ability to fail upward because every institution depended on your