You Had Five Minutes

That was the real reason five minutes was enough.

Not because I was fast, but because I had already, without his ever noticing, done all the slow work in advance.

Chapter 7 — Accountability, Not Revenge

The truth is, my call to Conrad had very little to do with revenge.

It was about accountability.

Six months before that afternoon, I had quietly purchased a stake in Conrad’s company using the inheritance from my late father — a documented minority interest that, under the shareholder agreement, gave me the full legal right to inspect corporate records and attend shareholder meetings.