You do not hand off a major launch an hour before the call.”

“Marcus worked on every single slide with me yesterday afternoon,” Ethan said, keeping his voice quiet and level.

“He knows the technical specifications as well as I do.”

“Marcus is twenty-six years old,” Alan Vance said, the sound of his wrist watch tapping against his wooden desk coming clearly through the line.

“If you walk away from this launch now, it goes directly onto your annual evaluation.

You realize what that means for your future in this division?”