Lily's POV

Friday morning at three AM I was still awake reviewing Victor's acquisition pattern when something clicked in my mind.

I grabbed my laptop and started researching Victor Walter's corporate history looking for patterns beyond Thompson Enterprises.

Alexander was asleep on my office couch exhausted from eighteen-hour days preparing our defense strategy.

But I couldn't sleep because I kept thinking there had to be something we were missing.

Some weakness in Victor's approach we could ...