I stared at him. "We leak it? You said that would kill the merger."
"It would," Sterling agreed, his eyes glinting with a wild, brilliant light. "If we were cowards." If we did it anonymously, like he did. We’re not going to be anonymous. We're going to seize the goddamn story."
"He began to pace, not with anger, but with the kinetic energy of a man rearranging the entire chessboard in his mind. "Croft's article about Finch created a problem for the Schmitt board. They're nervous. They're afraid of being associated with a 'vulture'. We don't run from that. We prove we are the solution, not the problem."
He stopped, turning to face me, his face alive with a fierce, predatory glee. "We will call an emergency meeting with the Schmitt board. And in that meeting, you will present them with t
