Chapter 35

The design drafts originally secured by the company couldn't be completed on time, even with overtime, resulting in penalty payments for breach of contract. After compensating for the breaches, we lost a significant portion of our clients due to credibility issues, and most of those clients shifted to Sophia's competing company. When I arrived downstairs at the company, I received a call from my mother. The last time I asked her when she would visit me in the hospital, she dismissed the idea, saying it wouldn't make a difference, and hung up to continue playing blackjack. Before that, she had called to borrow money for an investment. So what was it about this time? When I slid my finger across the screen to answer, chaotic noise filled the call. I frowned deeply. "Mom, what's wrong?" "Joshua, you have to save me this time! I—" Before she could finish, a commotion erupted on the other end, followed by a man's voice, arrogant and coarse. "Are you Ferlyn Mosher's son?" As he spo