“This isn’t the time for change—” “Cut me off again, Millard, and we’re going to have a bigger problem than this goddamn meeting,” Loren says with the utmost confidence. He can hold his own in front of these men. I talked with Connor about this meeting on the phone, about an hour before it started. I was in the bathroom, and he told me, “I believe Lo can do even more than we all think.” The Loren Hale today is a stark difference than the one years ago. It’s his self-confidence that will annihilate their contempt. I can’t restrain my smile.
