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Laressional committee last year and already testified about Barlowe’s do to waste my time with this? EpiClick has competitors, like AdrenaJex”

“Their reputation took a serious hit after their recall two years ago, as did their market share”

He spoke to Vance like a father lecturing an insolent son “They put out an inferior product How is that my problem?”

I had to press ht into it

“Because you absorbed the partner company of AdrenaJex six months before the recall”

We’d stayed up until three in theto solve the puzzle from all the emails that were inside the Barlowe folder on the flash drive It had been a deep rabbit hole to fall down, but at the end, we’d figured it out

While Barlowe didn’t own AdrenaJex outright, they’d bought a co that went inside the auto-injection device

“You caused the recall,” Vance announced, “wiping out the competition, and when EpiClick controlled ninety percent of the market, you tripled the price”

Itabout it People’s lives depended on this drug, and thecost for the entire system was only twenty dollars But Barlowe’s price had skyrocketed over the last two years and was now north of six hundred for a two-pack dose

I’d expected Lauilty, but maybe he wasn’t capable He barely looked human as he raised an eyebrow “You’re awfully bold to co so utterly ridiculous, and to do it when you don’t have even a shred of proof”

“You sure about that?” Vance fired back

He hesitated for a ”

“Maybe,” Vance agreed “Perhaps I don’t have an e process at Maxlyn, or how you arned it ned off on it anyway”

So, Laes of his expression We weren’t bluffing, and now he knew it

Vance’s shoulders broadened as he straightened in his seat, looking regal and deadly “As I otiate”

The tension in the roo more hostile with every breath