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106|Like A Wound
Like Liam had expected, the board—Clarke included—was firmly on Julian's side, and for two hours, he had to sit and take the tongue lashing from all the senior board members when they nicely asked him to stop his reckless shopping spree!
"Why the hell can't you all see this is a good thing for us? All these small towns are light years behind us, relying on postal services for their goods. If we have shipping depots—"
"That was not part of our expansion plan, Son," Clarke said, his voice barely above a whisper. He was still frail and should not even be sitting in such lengthy meetings. But as the chairman, his presence was required.
"Plans are meant to be altered!" Liam pushed back, refusing to give up on his vision.
"You can't make up for the loss of life by snapping up all these struggling companies!" His mom tried to reason with him.
"I'm giving them a new lease on life, creating jobs, restarting economies! What's the issue?" Liam asked. He
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