The greetings continued until Whitlock came through the door. Except for Liam and Daniel, everyone paused when they saw who had walked in.
Liam's friends' parents recognized him immediately. They were comfortable people — professionals, business owners, individuals who had built meaningful lives — but Whitlock operated at a scale that made comfortable people aware of the distance.
He ran the most valuable financial institution in the world, and since the Nova Technologies partnership, the most strategically significant one. The question most of them had on their mind, and not just them, but everyone in the corporate world and beyond, was how that had happened.
They imagined that Liam had walked into JP Morgan and walked out with a partnership that had moved the bank's market cap by hundreds of billions.
Standing in the same room as the only man who could give them the answer made the question feel different.
