He Kept Explaining My Job Until His Phone Lit Up

of that.”

“Legal reviewed what they were given.”

He said it toward me, not to her.

My father pushed his chair back an inch.

“Did your team miss this?”

Ethan’s jaw clenched.

“No. We had a strategy around it.”

“That strategy,” I said, “was to close fast enough that someone else had to own the cleanup.”

His face did the thing. A flat, stunned blankness. Not because continue reading …