9:00 PM. The Vault, Victoria Island.

Simon Levi was on top of the world.

Or at least, he felt like it. He was seated in the most exclusive VIP section of The Vault, a bottle of Ace of Spades chilling in a gold bucket before him, surrounded by a haze of expensive cigar smoke and the thumping bass of Afrobeats.

He checked his phone. The video views were in the millions. The Carter Group stock had dipped 12% in four hours. And Vivienne… well, Vivienne was history.

He leaned back, spreading his arms across the velvet sofa as a waitress poured him another glass.

“To chaos,” he toasted to himself,...