Chapter 11 - Eleanor Tries To Call Her Banking Partners With No Success
Back in the boardroom, Eleanor held a secure landline phone to her ear with a shaking hand.
The line remained dead silent except for a repetitive, automated disconnection tone echoing through the receiver.
She slammed the phone down onto its cradle, glaring at the terrified faces of her remaining board members.
“Call Zurich! Call the Swiss banking syndicate!” Eleanor screamed, losing all her usual composure.
“We tried, Eleanor,” a senior director answered quietly. “They said Madam President Vance holds absolute veto power.”
Eleanor sank slowly into her chair, her chest tightening as the crushing weight of total defeat set in.
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