Three exclamation points.
I almost admired the audacity.
The next morning, I walked into Sterling Cyber Solutions headquarters in my best gray suit. The Meridian team had flown in from Singapore, and by two o’clock we had signed contracts worth 2.3 million dollars.
David shook my hand in front of the executive team.
“Myra Seward closed the biggest deal in our company’s history without missing a single beat,” he said.
If only he knew what I had been managing on the side.
That night, I sat in my hotel room and practiced my speech.
Twelve slides.
Four embedded video clips.
One timeline.
Everything they had said.
Everything they had done.
All of it ready to be displayed on an eighty-five-inch screen at Hillcrest Country Club.
The night before the party, Rachel came to my hotel room. She sat on the edge of the bed while I ran through the presentation one final time, checking that each clip loaded correctly, that the audio was clear, that the timestamps were visible.
