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CHAPTER 127 — The Cost of Winning
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2026-08-25 12:30:25The insurance renewal letter was four pages longer than it had been the previous year, and every single one of those extra pages, Adam discovered, cost real money.
"They're calling it a risk profile adjustment," Melissa said, sliding the heavy letter across the desk along with a summary she'd already annotated in sharp red ink. "Which is a polite, corporate way of saying our underwriters watched us absorb Baxter, take on six new partner relationships, and triple our regional footprint in
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It arrived at precisely 9:04 on a Monday morning, and by 9:20 Harris was standing in Adam’s executive suite without having called ahead, a heavy, unbranded courier box clamped under one arm and an expression on his face that Adam had never seen him wear before.Harris didn't take off his coat. He didn't offer his usual dry, razor-sharp commentary about the quality of Titan’s office coffee or comment on the weather over the river. He walked straight to the long mahogany table, set the box down with a deliberate, ceremonial care—as if the contents were made of pressurized glass that might detonate if handled carelessly—and looked Adam squarely in the eye."I need you to clear the next four hours," Harris said, his voice flat, stripped of all its customary legal flourish. "And I need Melissa in this room before I open a single flap."Melissa arrived within two minutes, her tablet clutched against her ribs, still holding a ceramic mug she’d been halfway through drinking when
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