“Pick that up from the floor right now!” — the manager shouted to the waitress, but the entire restaurant stopped when the woman took her apron off and said: “you’re fired.”…..

It came from the far end of the room—from the investors’ table.

A man in a gray suit stood. White hair. Piercing eyes. Authority that needed no volume.

Laurent Duval.

Founder of Duval Hospitality Group. Owner of Le Ciel.

Gozon went pale.