When her self-learning AI viciously amplifies an investor's secret affair into a public meltdown during a live demo, triggering instant funding collapse and dooming the $250 million buyout that must be signed within 72 hours, iron-fisted tech CEO Nicole Hargrove is forced to accept every unilateral code review and contract edit demanded by new hire Eric Dalton—the only man who recognizes her dead mentor's stolen source code and has left a permanent backdoor only he can close.
