Isabella returned to headquarters energized.
I looked up from supply manifests. "How'd it go?"
"He offered me everything. Markets. Connections. Resources." She sat down, started pulling out papers. "It was almost insulting how little he understood about what I actually want."
"Which is?"
"A partner, not a patron." She spread out her analysis. "I ran projections and If we execute this correctly, we can force Adrian to either abandon his price war or bankrupt himself within three months."
"Three months? I thought you said six?"
"That's if we played defensively. Offensively?" She smiled. "Three months."
"Show me."
She laid out the strategy and it was brilliant.
Adrian was hemorrhaging money on fifteen contracts. Isabella proposed targeting five of those, not to compete on price, but to compete on value.
