It's been roughly three hours since I entered this meeting room. We were not making any progress. I was starting to lose patience.

I firmly inform the man in front of me, "It's not going to work that way."

He answers right away, "Miss Wilson, it's the best we can do." In a nearly haughty manner.

I fix my gaze on the representative of Dukes corp, Bernard. Cassandra had encouraged us to collaborate with this fabric manufacturing company.

'He's trying to defraud us,' ...