Page 13 (1/2)

For once, he ed to restrain himself Slowly, they took their places Jennifer Perez, America Lewis, Dustin Nessman, Raj Pinto The last to walk in was Cliff He always sat on George’s immediate left He seemed more preoccupied than the rest, but then, Cliff had been friends with their father, ithim harder than the others, Neal assumed

Neal waited for so, but no one spoke up It see for him He cleared his throat unnecessarily

“I… thank you all for your support at this ti flat

Thankfully, Cliff spoke up, drawing attention away from Neal

“I called thisto discuss several pertinent issues At such a ti of our future course is necessary I’e would have wanted us to secure the business”

Neal stared at Cliff, taken back

“Umm… I’m sorry,” Neal interrupted, “I don’t understand What do you mean by ‘secure the business’?”

Cliff’s face was a ed Neal are that Harry had tensed beside him He had a stack of files in front of hion that was foreign to him Neal looked around the table, at each face that surrounded hi

Twentycurses at everybody in sight He could hear thenored the, under the blinding glare of the noon day sun He rested his hands on his knees, trying to co reality He heard someone call his name and he was about to turn around and throw a punch in their face, when he realized it was Harry

“Neal –"

“What the hell was that, Harry?” he demanded in fury

“Ninety days?” Neal yelled, unconcerned with the looks he was being thrown “Ninety days and the board will declare George dead and steal his shares!”

“I’ over the contracts the last few days,” Harry said in defeat “Legally, everything is sealed up tight The board has the power to make this decision”

“We don’t know that he’s dead yet,” Neal all but screamed “What if we find that he’s alive after the ninety days have passed?”

Harry couldn’t seem to meet Neal’s eyes “It will be too late by then”