Dad. You fired me in front of the entire staff because I wouldn’t let you throw Chad under the bus after thirty years.” I pointed toward the open bay doors, out toward the gravel yard where three contractor trucks were lined up waiting for lumber. “And I didn’t come here to compete with you. Sully offered me a partnership because he needed hands, and the people followed because they needed someone who remembered how this valley works.”
He stared down at the concrete floor. The silence between us stretched out, heavy and suffocating.
“Otis brought his mower to Rex’s on
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