Ethan's Savior

After two years hauling ice among the Jovian Trojans, Jake Soderstrom docks at Cypress Wheel, the Mars‑L5 O’Neill cylinder he once called home. The welcome isn’t what he imagined. His wife Lena has become a power broker, and their sixteen‑year‑old son Ethan is stim‑patched and glass‑eyed—a “meat firewall” whose brainwaves authorize multimillion‑credit trades. With clinics bought and the port authority in her pocket, Lena traps Jake into riding second chair on her AI trading stack.