It took him twenty minutes to find the pattern.
Marcus’s jaw tightened. For a long moment, Zane thought he’d refuse. Then Marcus nodded once, sharply. “You’d have made a hell of an opposing counsel.”
“No,” Zane said, and slid a printout across the desk. The Q3 expenses. The Veridian dinners. The link to Paula Kwan.
Marcus’s face went through five stages in three seconds: confusion, recognition, panic, shame, and finally a tired, ugly resignation. He didn’t deny it. He just said, “How long did it take you to find this?”
“It’s a formality,” said Elena, his closest ally on the executive committee. She swirled her espresso in the glass-walled kitchen on the thirty-first floor. “You brought in the Chandling account. You settled the Weston class-action. No one else has your numbers.”
Zane sat down across from him. “Because I don’t want to be the kind of managing partner who wins by burying his competition in a footnote. I want to be the kind who cleans up the mess before anyone gets hurt.”
Maybe he’d never know.
It took him twenty minutes to find the pattern.
Marcus’s jaw tightened. For a long moment, Zane thought he’d refuse. Then Marcus nodded once, sharply. “You’d have made a hell of an opposing counsel.” does zane become managing partner
“No,” Zane said, and slid a printout across the desk. The Q3 expenses. The Veridian dinners. The link to Paula Kwan. It took him twenty minutes to find the pattern
Marcus’s face went through five stages in three seconds: confusion, recognition, panic, shame, and finally a tired, ugly resignation. He didn’t deny it. He just said, “How long did it take you to find this?” Then Marcus nodded once, sharply
“It’s a formality,” said Elena, his closest ally on the executive committee. She swirled her espresso in the glass-walled kitchen on the thirty-first floor. “You brought in the Chandling account. You settled the Weston class-action. No one else has your numbers.”
Zane sat down across from him. “Because I don’t want to be the kind of managing partner who wins by burying his competition in a footnote. I want to be the kind who cleans up the mess before anyone gets hurt.”
Maybe he’d never know.