Mr. Pierce confirmed the control provisions, and within minutes the discretionary accounts Gerald had been using were suspended pending review. Payroll, fuel, taxes, employee benefits, and vendor payments remained untouched, exactly as the agreement required. But Gerald’s executive card stopped working. So did Renata’s. Marcus lost access to the development account he had expected to use for his project. My phone immediately filled with calls. Dad demanded that I reverse everything before his lunch with the board, because that lunch was where he planned to announce Marcus as the company’s new head of operations.
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