She saved the company forty thousand dollars in penalties that one week, working until her eyes were bloodshot and her fingers were black with printer ink.

Maybe I’d been looking at those bank transfers the wrong way.

Someone who builds a business from nothing sometimes makes aggressive moves to protect what they believe is theirs.

If she thought I was losing my edge or letting the company drift, she might have moved that cash to keep the merger from falling apart.

People do drastic, foolish things when they grew up poor and are terrified of losing the roof over their heads.

I turned another page and stopped at a photo from the annual hospital fundraising dinner in downtown Nashville two Decembers back.