Chapter Sixty-Eight

It was why I began to wish Sally were here. After meeting her at the restaurant following my confrontation with Freda, Sally reiterated in so many ways how wrong I was to have sent Freda away.

Fortunately, she foresaw this, and we came up with a solution to salvage the entire problem. Hopefully, it would work. We had drawn up a mock proposal of the one I would have gotten from Freda had I not sent her away and worked with it.

Sally had many clients who had previously worked with Freda in one way or another, so she had an idea of what the proposal would look like. Freda, of course, was a very cunning woman, so we tried as much as possible not to underestimate her, and, in the end, we were able to fix every hole that our mock proposal had.

The idea was that when the board got a hold of the news and met me angrily, then I would explain to them all the things they had to lose if they did business with Ranhold. But that would be hard to do since I never got the proposal from Freda.

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