“They Mocked Me as a ‘Charity Case’ at the BBQ — By Morning, Their Empire Was on a 30-Day Clock”

took the money. You just never bothered to find out where it came from.”

I closed my folder.

“This isn’t personal, Joseph,” I added, echoing his phrase he’d used a hundred times when dismissing my feelings. “It’s just business.”

He recoiled like I’d slapped him.

“The sale is complete,” David said smoothly. “There is, however, one more matter: the distribution continue reading …