RIVAL FOUNDATIONS
She found the folder near the bottom, unlabeled except for a date, and she sat down on the floor of the storage room and read the whole thing twice before she let herself feel anything about it.
The contract was exactly as bad as she remembered, in the ways she remembered, and worse in ways she hadn't fully understood at twenty six, when the whole thing had happened and she'd been too consumed with watching her father unravel to read the fine print herself. The clause on page forty was every bit as buried as family legend had made it, a restructuring provision that transferred design credit and controlling decision rights to Cross Holdings under a set of conditions that, on paper, looked lik