Michael Walked Out of His Office the Day Four-Year-Old Noah Called About a Broken Arm

Michael read down the line items.

The regional truck maintenance total showed a surplus of eleven thousand four hundred dollars.

“That’s the projected maintenance reserve,” Michael said.

“That’s mathematically impossible,” Carla said.

“You carried the fleet depreciation over twice.

And you left out the diesel fuel surcharge entirely.”

Michael stared at the numbers.

The mistake was painfully obvious.