Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 250

Lacey couldn't help but intervene, her tone pleading.

"She squeezes out a few fake tears, and you two throw every standard and protocol out the window. Is that it?

"Funny how I don't recall you ever bending over backward like this for Mira."

Ethan realized he needed to seriously reevaluate his family's toxic dynamics.

"What the hell are you implying? Are you questioning us?"

Adrian flared up instantly, his face turning a furious shade of red like a cat whose tail had just been stepped on.

"Do whatever you want. I'm done."

Ethan dropped the conversation and stalked off to his room.

Being around them was utterly suffocating.

"Who do you think you're walking away from? You think you're untouchable now?"

Adrian bolted up, ready to drag his son back, but Lacey grabbed his arm.

"Let it go for now. We'll figure something out later."

She couldn't stand watching her husband and eldest son rip each other apart.

...

The following afternoon at Solflare headquarters, an executive pitched a new idea. "Should we launch our own e-scooter division to counter them?"

Mira shut it down instantly.

"EcoRide is designed specifically to solve the 'last mile' problem—the short distance between a subway station and a customer's final destination.

If they need to travel further, they'll take the bus or a cab.

E-scooters might be faster and require less physical effort, but from a purely logistical standpoint, there is zero market necessity for them."

"Furthermore, the manufacturing overhead for electric vehicles is astronomically high. We'd have to demand massive user deposits, which would price out the working class immediately.

Then there's the inevitable nightmare of widespread battery theft.

The operational costs alone would bleed us dry. Scooters need to be constantly charged and have batteries swapped out manually. That requires a massive fleet of technicians and trucks."

She was drawing entirely on the catastrophic tech-bubble failures she remembered from her past life.

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