My Family Toasted

Client churn, expense issues, missed renewals, internal complaints.”

“You built a file on me?”

“You built the file. We printed it.”

He looked away.

For a moment, he seemed younger.

Not innocent. Never that.

But smaller.

“When we were kids,” he said, “you always had to be better than me.”

That surprised me.

“Preston.”

“No, seriously. Grades, numbers, Grandpa’s continue reading …