Page 48 (1/2)

I’m in the same boat “Why?”

My buddy lets out a long breath “I eventually realized a dauidance, h even the sies me, who matches me in drive and intellect, who…completes me, as corny as that sounds I don’t have to take care of Nia We work together to take care of us Jesus, this is getting deep Is so on?”

And here comes the unavoidable decision I owe Evan too much to shut him out, especially after he’s been painfully honest “I’ for Sloan, for all the reasons you just mentioned”

“Shit”

“It’s incredibly inconvenient,” I admit

“You’ve got to rein it in, buddy You haven’t stopped Reservoir fro after Wynam yet And we still don’t know the identity of the spy reporting our business to Sloan”

“But I have kept her froh the mud”

“So far But she seems to be one step ahead of you”

That’s less important to me than what happens next “Professionally, she needs ot the upper hand”

“For the moment But later?” he asks rhetorically “Where is Reservoir financially?”

“It’s still inconclusive,” I hedge “But it doesn’t look good”

“Great! Maybe the solution is to buy them out and take over”

And crush them That’s what he means

“Fire everyone, absorb the parts you want, and junk the rest?”

“That anizations?”