136. The Invitation He Can’t RefuseRoman

The decision arrives before the courage does.

I’m staring at the skyline from the forty-seventh floor of Ro'Nova Global when it settles in my chest. It's heavy, deliberate and impossible to ignore. Manhattan glows the way it always has, arrogant and alive, glass and steel reflecting ambition back at itself. This city made me. It also hid me. Let me build an empire tall enough to pretend I wasn’t hollow.

Africa sits open on my desk behind me. A ...