"Some questions follow us because we already know the answer."
Lucas
There were certain mistakes you could see coming long before they happened.
Engineering mistakes.
Business mistakes.
Financial mistakes.
Those were easy.
Data existed.
Patterns existed.
Logic existed.
People, however...
People were chaos.
Which explained why I was currently sitting in a board meeting pretending to review budget projections while thinking about Amy Carter.
Again.
The realization was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
I wasn't simply looking forward to our conversations anymore.
I was structuring my day around them.
A dangerous habit.
An even more dangerous truth.
"Lucas?"
I blinked.
The conference room came back into focus.
Twelve executives stared at me.
The CFO paused mid-s
