“You shouldn’t have come, Grant. Now we’re all in danger.” Just then, a black car pulled up behind us, and my daughter screamed…

my quarterly projections. That was the standard operating procedure for the hollow shell of a man I had morphed into.

But there was something in the precarious way her thin legs shook—the fierce, desperate way she clamped her jaw shut to suppress a sob—that pierced straight through my cultivated apathy.

I depressed the aluminum intercom button.

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