All Chapters of Go Away Chris : Chapter 121 - Chapter 125

Ayesha's POVThe session ended at six in the evening New York time and Dr. Cross called Ayesha at sixfifteen with the voice of a woman who had spent the preceding two hours doing somethingdifficult and necessary and was now on the other side of it, not relieved but resolved."Both Haine and the second member have been suspended from the governancecommittee pending a full internal review," Dr. Cross said. "Their access to partnershipdocumentation has been revoked. The foundation's legal counsel is preparing a formal breachof fiduciary duty filing.""And the cultural centre?" Ayesha said."Remains fully active," Dr. Cross said. "The review process was never about the culturalcentre. It was about the consortium's property interest and the governance members who werefacilitating it. With those members suspended the obstruction is removed.""The second member," Ayesha said. "Who?""A woman named Patricia Osei," Dr. Cross said. "She joined the committee eight monthsago. Her communic

Ken's POV"I resigned from the firm."He said it in the kitchen of the house with the garden at ten fifteen in the evening, with Irislistening from the top of the stairs in the way Iris listened to things she was not supposed to belistening to, which was with complete and invisible attention.Ayesha looked at him across the kitchen with the expression that was not anger and wasnot surprise in the dramatic sense but was the specific expression of someone who hadreceived information that was changing the shape of what they understood the current situationto be, and who was doing the work of the reorientation honestly rather than reactively."When?" she said."Three weeks ago," he said. "The day after the cultural centre committee called about theoriginal courtyard commission. I resigned before I accepted the commission.""You resigned before accepting it," she said."Yes," he said."Why?""Because the firm's partnership agreement gives the firm first right to any commissionthat c