“Because I can end his company by dinner, if you want it ended.

You only have to say so.”

“That’s exactly what I don’t want,” I told him, and I meant it with everything in me.

“I don’t want Crestview to destroy his company because you’re my father and he hurt me.

I want Crestview to do just what it would do if any auditor, any stranger, had walked in and found what I found during ordinary due diligence.

If the numbers are clean, you honor the deal, and I’ll live with that.