Obadiah saw a multi-billion-dollar vanity project.

And her illness had handed him the perfect weapon.

What struck Emeka, listening to her describe the man trying to take her company, was how carefully she refused to make him a monster.

She could have.

It would have been easier — it is always easier to fight a villain than a man who is partly right.

But Ifeoma seemed to understand something about Obadiah that made him more dangerous and more tragic at once: that he was not acting out of greed, or malice, or even ambition, but out of love.