Crimson Footprints by Shewanda Pugh

Author:Shewanda Pugh [Pugh, Shewanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, interracial romance, Family, womens fiction, Drama, African American Romance, urban, literary fiction, ethnic romance, ethnic conflict, black author
ISBN: 9780984692361
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Two hundred pages bound and color-coded. Six graphs with corresponding appendices. Three flow charts, a budget, and one sleep-deprived architect. Deena’s moment of reckoning was less than ninety minutes away.

In those moments of near-neurotic fear, she flipped through her proposal in an effort to calm herself. Her work was good. But good wasn’t necessarily good enough.

It was an ode to organic architecture, and as such, a contradiction. Who’d ever heard of a skyscraper that mimicked nature? A jutting bolt of man-molded steel claiming to be a compliment to God’s natural order?

But life was contradiction.

Deena turned to the profiles in the rear of her proposal. Mahmoud was still there, alongside other prominent names like Michael Hudson, professor of landscape architecture at Yale and a consultant for the ’96 Olympics. Steve Marshall, a civil engineer and professor at the University of Southern California, whose books on coastal engineering were architectural gospel. And Claudia Oppenheimer, a designer whose name was outside the sphere of their world, but akin to that of Armani and Vuitton.

Of the three heavyweights she’d invited, Oppenheimer had been added to the team in a stroke of madness, brought on by Tak’s contagiously naïve encouragement. Now, as Deena stared at the potential design team, a veritable rock group in her world, her naivety and presumptuousness, her recklessness even, stared back at her, brewing and spreading a potent sort of horror.

She could hear Daichi as he flipped through the proposal—Mahmoud, Hudson, Oppenheimer. Impressive. While we’re at it, we’ll have the Beatles in the lounge and Julia Child in the kitchen. Next on the agenda: digging up Walt Disney, so he can sprinkle the fairy dust necessary for all this to come true.

Deena closed her proposal and rose from her desk. Her design was a good one. And she was a good architect. She would succeed. She repeated the mantra silently, as she made the trek from her office to the conference room. And when she entered, she found Daichi already seated at the head of the table with four junior partners in tow, two on each side. Daichi glanced at his watch and nodded. The clock was ticking.

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