KELVIN'S POV
The acquisition should be consuming every second of my attention.
Eight months of negotiations, hundreds of millions of dollars, three companies waiting for final approval, and a boardroom full of executives expecting me to lead them through the most important deal Clayton Global has handled this year should be more than enough to occupy my thoughts, yet the moment I walk into the conference room, the first thing that crosses my mind isn't revenue projections or legal strategy but whether Pamela confronted Sandra after the charity event and how badly that conversation went.
The realization irritates me immediately because this is exactly the kind of distraction I spent my entire life training myself to avoid.
Control built everything I have. Control turned a struggling ent
