“Mom, what are we going to do? If we breach the contract, we’re looking at a 120-million-dollar penalty. There’s no way we can afford that! I told you from the start we shouldn’t get involved in this business. We’d have been better off just living off the Parker family’s 100 million dollars…” Patrick was losing it.

He had envisioned a life of indulgence, but now, if they couldn’t secure the land, they’d face ruin.

“If we can’t get a piece of land in ...