Then I reached the paragraph about Daniel.
Daniel came to me because he needed help and
because he was too proud to come to you. You will be tempted to be angry with him for the second part before asking yourself why the first part felt easier with me.
I stopped reading.
Claire looked at me.
“You okay?”
“Keep going,” Daniel said quietly through the phone.
So I did.
Anne had agreed to back four hundred thousand dollars.
Only four hundred.
She had instructed Peter Alden to prepare the paperwork.
She had not authorized seven hundred and fifty thousand.
She had even written a sentence in
the margin of her personal ledger:
PETER SAYS BANK PREFERS LARGER FACILITY. I SAID NO. DANIEL NEEDS A BRIDGE, NOT AN ANCHOR.
Daniel turned away from the camera.
For a moment all we could see was the window behind him.
“She did help me.”
