“Let go.”
His face looked different than it had looked inside the ballroom.
At the gala, he had been loud, arrogant, and drunk enough to believe nobody would challenge him. In fron
“Answer me.”t of executives, board members, and investors, he had joked that if the company wanted loyalty from him, perhaps they should hire his wife as part of the compensation package.
The room had gone silent.
Then Nathan Brooks, the company founder and Brandon’s employer, had stood up and calmly asked him to repeat the statement.
Brandon had laughed.
A few minutes later, he had shoved Nathan during an argument.
Everything unraveled after that.
