Why did Eleanor keep suggesting I quit my consulting work?
Why did Thomas ask strangely detailed questions about investments left to me by my father?
Then I found the answer.
My father had quietly invested years earlier in a pharmaceutical logistics company.
When he died, he left me a minority interest.
That company controlled distribution rights Blackwell BioSystems desperately needed for a federal contract worth hundreds of millions.
Adrian hadn’t stumbled into me.
His family had researched me.
They had not wanted a daughter-in-law.
They wanted access.
Adrian had approached me like a man falling in love.
The Blackwells had approached me like an acquisition.
