“You’re off by seven hundred pallets.”

Michael swallowed hard.

He’d spent three hours going over the slide deck the night before, but his mind had been entirely on the Warren County docket.

“I grabbed the wrong data set for that chart,” Michael said quietly.

“That’s the third big mistake in a ten-minute presentation,” Carla said.

She closed her notebook and laid her red pen exactly parallel to its edge.

“You got a formal written warning yesterday about how distracted you’ve been,” Carla said.