He Kept Explaining My Job Until His Phone Lit Up

earlier, now bigger. Not confusion. Recognition.

Mercer.

He knew Greg wasn’t talking about some abstract executive anymore.

Greg kept going.

“Partner votes are off the table until this is sorted. You and Martin will both be interviewed Monday.”

A long pause.

Then Greg said, quieter and somehow meaner, “If there’s anything else buried in your files, now would continue reading …