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Chapter 12 - First Date
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2026-05-02 16:53:23
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The bank meeting ended at eleven forty-three.Adam knew the exact time because he checked his watch when the relationship manager stood to shake his hand.The meeting lasted an hour and seventeen minutes.It felt longer.He walked out of the building into the grey Friday morning that felt dull and oppressive and stood on the pavement for a moment before moving toward his car.Melissa was already in the passenger seat.She'd attended as Titan's financial officer, which was not technically her title but was technically accurate, and had sat across the table from the bank's two representatives with the composed readiness of someone who had prepared for every question and was mildly disappointed they hadn't asked harder ones.Adam got into the car.Neither of them said anything immediately so he silently pulled out into traffic."Well," he said, after two blocks."They'll probably follow up in writing," Melissa said. "Nothing in the room suggested they were moving toward anything drastic.
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The breakdown arrived on Wednesday morning.It was fourteen pages long.Melissa had gotten it before Adam did — she'd put herself as the secondary contact on the request, which he hadn't told her to do and wasn't surprised she had.By the time he got to the office she'd already read it twice and had three pages of her own notes sitting beside it.He poured his coffee and sat across from her."Tell me," he said.She opened her notes. "The assessment covers six areas. Project portfolio volatility, client concentration risk, subcontractor dependency, market exposure, payment cycle consistency, and something they're calling operational stability index, which isn't a standard metric and which I've never seen on an insurance document before.""Invented for the occasion.""Possibly. Or borrowed from somewhere obscure enough that it looks legitimate on paper." She turned a page. "The first five categories are fine. Our scores are average to above average across all of them. Nothing that would
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The letter arrived on a Monday morning.It wasn't an email but an actual letter, printed on company letterhead and folded into thirds.Adam's name on the envelope, Titan's address below it. He found it in the small stack of physical mail an employee sorted every morning and left on the corner of his desk.He almost didn't open it first.There were three emails that needed responses before nine and a site report he'd promised to review before the contractor called at ten.The letter looked administrative which was business lingo for the kind of thing that could wait until the afternoon without consequence.He opened it anyway due to some instinct, not quite alarm, just attention.It was from Delbrook Supplies.Adam read it once quickly, then again slowly.Delbrook had been supplying materials to Titan for fourteen months, since before Adam had taken over, inherited along with the office and the org chart and the faded logo on the company letterhead.They were reliable, mid-range on pri
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Jiang's text arrived on Thursday evening with the energy of a natural disaster.—brother. dinner. now. I'm outside your building and I can hear your brain working from here.Adam looked at his phone, looked at the spreadsheet he'd been staring at for forty minutes, and looked at his phone again. He typed:— I'm working, can't come.—you're always working. I brought the good news from Engineering which is that I passed my thermodynamics exam and you have to celebrate with me because we're brothers and that's the law.Adam thought about the spreadsheet.He thought about the payment windows and the notation he'd been trying to make sense of for the better part of an hour.He also thought about the fact that he'd eaten lunch at his desk again and couldn't remember if he'd had breakfast.— Give me ten minutes.—I'm timing youHe saved the spreadsheet, closed his laptop, and grabbed his jacket.On the way out he passed Melissa's desk — she'd alr
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