Monday started well.
That should have been the warning.
Good coffee. Clear desk. The Hendricks file finally resolved after six weeks of back-and-forth. Marcus came in at nine with news that the phase three handover had been approved without amendments. I signed off on two outstanding reviews and had cleared my inbox by eleven. Productive, clean, the kind of morning that makes you think the week has decided to cooperate.
The email arrived at eleven forty-three.
Bisi's name in my inbox. Subject line: FW: Re: Settlement Addendum Okafor/Adeyemi.
I didn't open it straight away. Just looked at it. The way you look at a thing before you let it in.
Then I clicked.
Gerald's lawyer. A query about a clause in the original settlement something about the IP on a joint investment made in year fou
