For Nine Years He Mistook My Silence for Surrender; What He Never Understood Was That Every Dinner I Didn’t Fight About Was a Day I Stayed Close Enough to Gather What I Needed to End Him
One of the senior investors set his coffee cup down hard enough that it rang.
“Is this,” he said slowly, staring at the screen, “company money?”
Chapter 13 — Section 4.2
Roman’s attorney rose smoothly to intercept it.
“Members of the board, I’d caution everyone against jumping to conclusions.
These charges are subject to internal review, and can very likely be reclassified as executive compensation—”
“They cannot,” Lorna said.
She had not raised her voice either.
