A Step Back
The company’s stock plunged for more than a dozen consecutive sessions, wiping out billions in market value, turning stock certificates into worthless pieces of paper.
He no longer had the energy to deal with a minor character like me.
His apocalypse had arrived.
My parents saw the news of the Grant family’s collapse and nearly had their hearts stop.
Only then did they realize that the mountain they had been kneeling before was actually a volcano about to erupt.
Also, the one they had been desperate to crush, me, was the only lifeline.
That night, they rushed to me, dragging Dylan along.
With a thud, they dropped to their knees.