Greg had the presence of mind to close his mouth after his jaw
had dropped. Marie blushed and looked down at her notes and the
other three followed suit. Chloe continued before they could
regroup from that particular set of visuals she'd conjured up for
them.
"And I've got plenty of time and energy to spend on you guys.
There will be a wrongful termination lawsuit, I can promise you
that, but it's only the beginning, just the tip of the iceberg.
Because you see, Paul here's a major stockholder in this company.
He's vested 8.5% of it, which certainly gives him standing to
protest any kind of financial mismanagement. And from what Paul
tells me, there's a fair amount of that going on around here."
Chloe paused to deal her files out around the table. There was
one for each of the
