THIRD PERSON'S POV Derek sat at his large mahogany desk, piles of documents scattered haphazardly around him. The tension in the room was palpable, and his eyes burned from staring at the endless stream of contracts, financial statements, and meeting minutes that detailed the slow, agonizing collapse of F&J. His once-flourishing company was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and for the life of him, he couldn’t pinpoint where everything had gone so horribly wrong. It wasn’t as if Derek had ever been careless. He built the company from the ground up, made the right connections, and secured multi-million dollar deals. He knew every client by name, every merger like the back of his hand. Yet, here he was, on the brink of losing it all. His mind buzzed with the weight of his failures, but