Marcos fought me for two hours.
Not in the war room — in the kitchen at forty-two stories, at the island where Cole and I had been standing at three in the morning with too-fine coffee and six inches of negotiated distance. Marcos sat on one side with the disclosure documents on his tablet. I sat on the other with a pour-over I'd made because the conversation was going to be long and I needed my hands on something I'd built.
"The disclosure exposes the 303's connection to Treeline," Marcos said. "Publicly. On the record. Every filing, every entity, every identity I created to protect this organization becomes visible the moment you submit this document."
"The connection is already exposed. Mares filed the injunction. The public record already shows a relationship between Treeline and Front Range Holdings. My disclosure doesn't create exposure — it controls it."
"It controls it by admitting it."
"Yes."
