My Cousin Read the Headline Out Loud at Thanksgiving

was your presentation.”

That landed.

He went still.

A red stripe climbed his neck.

Sophia looked from him to me, then back again. She was doing math in real time and not liking where it ended.

Dad frowned. “What does that mean?”

I answered him because Marcus wouldn’t.

“It means Marcus wasn’t leading the close. He was being managed around.”

My mother made a continue reading …