Chapter 11 — Obadiah

His name was Obadiah, and he had been Amani Ashgrove’s partner for nearly thirty years.

He was the board’s vice chairman now.

“He isn’t a cartoon villain,” Ifeoma told Emeka over tea, and she said it without bitterness.

“When the company almost went under in the tech crash, Obadiah remortgaged his own house to make payroll.

He genuinely believes he’s protecting the thing he built with my father.” The heart of the fight was Ifeoma’s own project: a low-orbit satellite constellation meant to bring high-speed internet to rural communities the map had forgotten, towns where families had been left digitally stranded for decades.