“Hell of a quote,” Julie said when he saw her in the staff kitchen the next morning. He was helping himself to his third cup of coffee. He hadn’t slept. “Thank you,” Gavin said. He returned to his desk with a strange feeling of floating. No one could prove that no investor had said those words to him but he still felt sick every time he thought about it. Amy Torren was the name of his eleventh grade English teacher.
