Sheila's fingers curled unconsciously.

She knew exactly what project they were talking about.

After Timothy's new solid-state battery technology broke into the international market, it took off fast.

Two years ago, when Timothy set his sights on bringing his batteries home, he launched a nationwide network of automated charging stations for electric cars- essentially eliminating the need for drivers to worry about battery life.

People who bought electric vehicles could now opt for models without batteries and simply rent one from the shared stations. If this caught on, domestic battery makers would face a massive disruption.

The Zimmerman Group, being the country's earliest electric vehicle manufacturer, had its own battery division.

The moment they caught wind of Timothy's plans, they acted overnight. Every service center under their name was swiftly refitted with this new charging station infrastructure. As soon as compatible batteries arrived, they'd be up and running.

For Timothy, just breaking into the domestic market, rolling out enough stations nationwide meant scouting locations, building facilities—nothing that could be accomplished in a day or two.

Meanwhile, other companies were offering batteries not quite as advanced as Timothy's, but good enough. If the Zimmerman Group partnered with one of them and captured the market first, Timothy's own project would be dead in the water.

back then was obvious: he wanted to force Timothy into licensing his battery tech to the Zimmerman

how

If Vince didn't take drastic action and let Timothy expand unchecked, Zimmerman's batteries would quickly lose market share, and

cooperate, he'd fall far behind the Zimmerman

had always been ambitious; if the returns didn't meet

was the only way for Timothy to truly

in the

go it alone if he wanted. Vince was just

Timothy despised anyone trying to strong-arm him

of nowhere, Vince was suddenly offering the project

help worrying things

running into each other. When you wanted the project, you fought for it; now you don't, you just

balled into

people had all grown up

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