Chapter 4 - The Boardroom IntruderWhile Lila and June experimented in the sunroom, miles away in downtown Seattle, a high-stakes board meeting was underway at Hale Technologies.
Julian Vance, Sawyer’s ambitious co-founder and brother-in-law, slammed a financial report onto the mahogany conference table.
“Sawyer is a ghost!” Julian declared to the anxious investors. “He hasn’t stepped foot in this office in six months. He’s adopted two street urchins and turned his mansion into a shelter! It’s time we invoke the incapacity clause and transition majority voting rights to my executive committee.”
The board murmured in agreement. Julian smiled, tasting victory. For years, he had plotted to push Sawyer out, seize the company's patented neural-link technology, and sell it to foreign conglomerates.
Just as the legal counsel opened the voting forms, the heavy oak doors of the boardroom swung open.
A tall man in a charcoal suit wheeled himself in, flanked not by lawyers, but by two little girls wearing brand-new dresses with matching yellow hair ribbons.
The room went dead silent.
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Sawyer didn't look like a ghost anymore. His eyes were sharp, cold, and entirely focused.
“You were saying, Julian?” Sawyer’s voice cut through the room like a razor.
