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Chapter 562
Chapter 562:
“Cancel all outstanding vacation approvals. Liquidate our secondary positions. I am authorizing ten billion dollars in liquid capital p>
The room held its breath.
Cole fixed his eyes on the enormous digital ticker running above the floor.
“When the Nasdaq bell rings this morning, I want to see Star Network Tech — Love Group’s primary acquisition target — brought to its knees. Short their stock until there is nothing left to short p>
𝘚𝘵𝗈𝗋𝗶e𝗌 𝗒𝘰𝘂 𝘸о𝘯’𝘁 р𝘂t 𝖽o𝘸𝘯 о𝘯 𝗴𝗮𝘭ո𝘰𝘷е𝘭𝘴.c𝗼𝘮
At exactly 9:30 AM New York time, the opening bell of the Nasdaq rang.
Inside the Compton Group trading floor, dozens of elite traders sat in near-total silence, fingers moving across their keyboards with practiced precision. Under Cole’s bloodshot, unblinking watch, they released a coordinated tidal wave of massive sell orders into the market.
Star Network Tech — the crown jewel of Crawford Love’s current expansion strategy — was hit within seconds.
In the first three minutes of trading, the stock chart fell off a cliff. Panic spread through Wall Street instantly. Retail investors and institutional algorithms triggered automatic stop-losses in a cascade, dumping shares faster than the market could absorb them. In under thirty minutes, billions of dollars in market capitalization had simply ceased to exist.
On the California coast, the sun had just cleared the horizon.
June sat on the sun-drenched patio of the beach villa in a soft white cashmere sweater, coffee in hand, cutting into a perfectly poached Eggs Benedict. The morning light caught the steam rising from her cup. She looked, for once, completely at peace.
Crawford sat across from her, unhurried, turning the pages of the morning paper and occasionally glancing up to take in the rare, unguarded calm on her face.
The encrypted satellite phone beside his plate emitted a sharp red alarm.
Crawford’s expression shifted the moment he looked at the screen. The easy warmth in his eyes was gone, replaced by the cold, focused clarity of a man reading a battlefield report.
He offered June a smooth, apologetic smile. “Excuse me for a moment. Work p>
He walked into the soundproof study and locked the heavy mahogany door behind him.
His Chief of Staff in New York was already frantic on the line, delivering the full picture in rapid succession — a ten-billion-dollar coordinated short attack, launched by the Compton Group at the opening bell, targeting Star Network Tech directly. If the stock price fell below the margin call threshold, the Love Group would face a severe liquidity crisis. The acquisition would be destroyed entirely.
Crawford listened without interrupting. When the report was finished, he let out a low, dark laugh.
Cole had seen the Instagram video. He had done exactly what Crawford expected.
Before he could issue counter-orders to his trading team, a second call cut through on a highly restricted private channel. The caller ID read simply: Cole Compton.
Crawford walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked out at the Pacific. He pressed accept.