Amara's POV
The regulator's email arrived at 6:47 on a Tuesday morning. It was only four lines, but it ruined the next three days of my life.
Additional safety documentation is required regarding the blowout preventer maintenance schedules for the Cormorant platform prior to final approval. Please advise on timeline.
I read it twice over coffee, then a third time in the elevator, hoping the words would change into something less troubling if I stared long enough.
They didn't.
The merger, the one I had built half my year around, the one that would either cement my career or become the thing everyone at Cole Corp whispered about for the next decade, had a hole in it.
The hole had a name: an under-documented maintenance log from eighteen months before I'd even joined the project.
Etha
