The Boardroom Went Quiet When My Mother’s Phone Rang

the conference table.

Not dramatic. Just cardboard. Blue label. Copies for everyone.

On the tab I’d written: TEKTON RISK SUMMARY.

Jennifer opened hers first. Derek followed. Richard took longer, which told me enough already. Mom didn’t touch hers.

Inside was a sixty-page internal review I’d finished two nights earlier.

Tekton’s debt exposure.

Their prior continue reading …