Chapter 136

NATHAN 

Stephan called me. My mother wanted to confirm my presence at the dinner to plan the year-end celebrations. My head was too full to think about it, especially since it involved someone other than myself.

The day had started infernally. For some reason, people couldn't do their jobs properly. I seemed to be surrounded by incompetents. 

The urgent problem Miss Dempsey had come to inform me about was bigger than I had imagined, and it was making my head boil. 

For years, Ryan has been one of the best, if not the best, in hardware development. But one of our projects had gone terribly wrong in its final production phase. After seeing the reports and the million-dollar expenses, I felt like firing every damn engineer. 

Stress was taking over me, making me contemplate retirement before turning thirty. And then there was Kate, persistently lingering in my mind, popping up out of nowhere. Our relationship was highly unstable, an