The Boardroom Went Quiet When My Mother’s Phone Rang

their own golden exits.

Derek leaned toward me. “What do you want?”

Straight to it.

Finally.

I turned to him. “You mean besides being treated like your brother sometime before one of us dies?”

He looked away first.

Richard jumped back in. “Let’s focus on the transaction.”

“No,” I said. “Let’s focus on the company.”

I reached into my bag and slid a folder onto continue reading …