After years of their constant back-and-forth, everyone at Lafond Group had gotten used to it.

"I wanted to confront him, but he had guests," Romina said, acting like she'd won. "So I let it go for now.".

"Oh really?" Donovan sat down across from her desk, a teasing smile on his face. "Then why do you look so upset? Did you lose?".

"I didn't lose," Romina huffed. "Come on, don't hype him up. When I go headto-

head with River, I usually hold my own.".

More or less.

Okay, maybe he won a little more often.

"I've

in a sack and beating him

raised an eyebrow. "So you did slap

on? I'm your sister. River's our sworn enemy. Yantail is thriving and opening

said calmly,

never underestimated him. I've always seen him as

"Our industry is struggling. Even successful companies take losses now. River made Yantail big, but they've had setbacks too. We're all looking to

in the same field as River-it was exhausting competing with

some young woman, so I went full drama mode and

I'm fine now. I iced his face and

think I wanted to? He threatened to call the cops, and I panicked. I misunderstood again. So I had to apologize, ice the swelling, and

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