He signed the agreement in the hospital hallway because his mother was dying and the math was brutal: surgery required money, money required a deal. The broker’s assistant made it simple—one night at a penthouse, no questions, no phone—and in exchange his mother would get a private bed and a surgeon by morning.
At 9:03 p.m., he sat across from a woman who poured tea as if she were closing a merger.
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