Chapter 52

Rainer's POV

Tasha skewered me with a look. 

"GroGreen is meant to be much more than a game." Frankie flipped back through his packet. 

"The virtual gardening tool went over huge with the beta testers. The top words used were realistic, beautiful, and authentic." The meeting erupted into a flurry of disagreements and side conversations. 

The CFO stepped back and let the team hash out new ideas. He knew something we did not. 

"Have you been in a garden lately?" Tasha asked me. 

"It's not supposed to be about control." 

"What about farmers, and those crazy people who create amazing hybrid roses? It seems like gardening is, at its root, about controlling Mother Nature," I said. 

"Oh, shit, that's good," Frankie said. He sent out another flurry of messages. Tasha raked her dark-brown eyes over me again.

 "I shouldn't be surprised that you missed the point of GroGreen entirely. I mean, this is t