Richard

It only takes one email to ruin my whole year.

“Maya!”

She comes running into my office with my brother on her tail. “What?”

I don’t even bother asking what he is doing here. Knowing him, it has everything to do with avoiding his responsibilities.

“Did you see Yakura’s latest email?” I slam my finger against the mouse, shutting the email browser before I have a stroke.

“No. What happened?”

My entire face feels like it’s on fire. “He received a call from my father.”

“Fuck.” James wipes his face.

My thought exactly. “Yakura’s threatening to pull out of the project.”

She drops into the chair across from me. “Why?”

“He didn’t go into any specific details, but his sentence about howour goals don’t seem to alignwas as good of a hint as any.”

It doesn’t take a genius to understand what happened. With my father’s personality and his…