That is all that happened.

I did not invent a single violation.

I simply stopped forgiving the real ones.” Charles felt the air leave his lungs, because he could not accuse Robert of lying, could not point to a single fabricated charge.

Whitmore Holdings had not attacked Caldwell Construction.

It had merely stopped holding it upright.

Robert opened another folder.

“Your company expanded by borrowing short-term money to fund increasingly large projects,” he said.

“You assumed we would keep renewing contracts and extending favorable financing indefinitely, forever, no matter how you performed.