him.
“They’re reviewing the team.”
Nobody spoke.
He kept going because silence can be a kind of dare.
“Brent says Peterson told the board we didn’t understand the assets. Said our integration assumptions were unserious.”
I said nothing.
He laughed once. Short. Ugly. “They used that word.”
Unserial, I almost corrected. Then didn’t. Let him have the real one.continue reading …