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Chapter 5 - The High-Stakes Negotiation in Transit

Amelia refused to board Flight 909 again. Instead, while Northstar’s executive team scrambled to figure out how to salvage the deal, she opted for a private VIP transfer back into Manhattan, driven directly to the airline’s corporate headquarters. Flight 909 took off without her—carrying a very nervous Mr. Henderson in row 2B, entirely unaware that the woman he had condescended to hold sway over his entire travel portfolio.

By 11:15 a.m., Amelia walked through the security gates of Northstar’s headquarters, flanked remotely by Vantage’s top legal counsel via conference call. She didn't head straight to the boardroom; instead, she demanded a private holding office.

Richard Vance intercepted her in the hallway, looking frantic, his suit jacket unbuttoned, his tie slightly crooked. "Amelia—please. Let’s talk. That incident at the airport was an unmitigated disaster born of miscommunication. Linda Marlow has already been suspended pending an internal review, and we are prepared to issue a formal public apology—"

"Mr. Vance," Amelia interrupted smoothly, keeping her stride steady. "An apology doesn't fix a systemic cultural rot that allows frontline employees to harass paying customers based on superficial profiling. More importantly, it demonstrates a severe lack of operational control on Northstar’s part—which happens to be the exact risk factor Vantage’s risk committee flagged three days ago."

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Richard swallowed hard, walking beside her. "What will it take to keep the restructuring on track? Name your terms."

Amelia stopped outside the conference room door, turning to face the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar airline. "We are going into that board meeting in ten minutes. But the terms of the debt covenant restructuring just changed. Northstar is going to cede an additional two percent equity stake into the employee-share trust, and you are personally going to implement mandatory operational bias training across every domestic hub, supervised by Vantage compliance officers. Take it, or I walk out of that building and let Chapter 11 liquidation begin by 2:00 p.m."

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