Please relocate those two immediately, Riiiip!

I walked through the curtain into First Class as Tiffany screamed behind me. Mark shot to his feet, furious, threatening security. I remained still. I asked James to turn on the cabin lights.

“Mr. Vance,” James announced, “you are speaking to the majority shareholder and owner of Skyward Air. This aircraft operates under her authority.”

Mark laughed—until my phone display appeared on the cabin monitors: ownership documents, transfers, Vanguard Holdings listed under my name as CEO. The truth hit him all at once. The Vanguard executive he’d been desperate to impress was the wife he had just humiliated. I informed him the Helios deal was terminated—because I controlled that company too, and I refused to work with a man who abused his partner.

I ordered the aircraft diverted to Reykjavík.

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