Boardroom Crossfire

The heavy crystal water glass struck the polished mahogany table with a dull, ringing thud.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the fifty-second floor, the morning skyline of the financial district sprawled under a pale grey haze. Inside the boardroom of Apex Group, the air was dense with hostility. Twelve men and women in tailored charcoal and navy suits sat in two rigid rows along the thir