My Brother Kept Bragging About a Deal He’d Already Lost

back from the table. Instinct. Like bad weather.

Marcus said, very carefully, “Those were relationship summaries.”

Another pause.

Then his voice broke around the edges. “No, that’s not what I said to investors.”

I knew right there this had moved past a lost deal.

He listened longer.

His hand tightened around the phone so hard his knuckles blanched.

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