Familiar Heirloom

~Bea~

Raina called at two thirty.

I could hear it in her voice before she said anything — the compressed, controlled tension of someone managing six things at once and holding all of them together through sheer will.

"I'm not going to make it to school pickup," she said. "Damian Cross just threatened litigation. IP theft claim on the Zenith acquisition. I have three weeks before his lawyers file,