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“I’M SO SORRY,” Maya said, after Ethan described the catastrophic meeting to his wife. “Do you need me to pick you up? I can cancel my afternoon meeting.” He sat in his office, sorting through the wreckage of the morning. Just hearing her voice over the phone made him relax a little, made things seem brighter somehow.

“That’s all right,” Ethan said. “I can take an Uber home. I have some logistics to wrap up before I leave.” He wasn’t sure of his next move yet. His mind was going in a thousand directions at once, scrambling to trace where they’d gotten off track. The company had never missed a deadline—not once in seven years! “If we ...

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