RIVAL FOUNDATIONS
The water moved slow and gray beneath them, catching the last of the daylight in long, unbroken streaks.
"Can I tell you something I haven't fully admitted to myself yet," Damian said, leaning against the railing, looking out at the water instead of at her.
"Always."
"Part of me is relieved my father's doing this. Selling the stake, causing trouble. I know that sounds strange. But some part of me has been waiting for the other shoe to drop since the day the review cleared us, waiting for him to prove that none of it actually changed anything, that he was always going to keep fighting me no matter what the record showed. Now that it's happening, I don't have to wait for it anymore. I just hav