Chapter 25. And Stay Out!

GABRIEL

FIVE YEARS LATER

The day wasn’t great.

We had lost a prospective client who I had assumed was a guarantee. I had already planned in my head the actions I would take with the status and money this client would have provided us. After it went down, I remained gazing at a list of development proposals I had no way of implementing now. The next day I called John, who I made my partner.

“We have to talk about this. We just can’t lose this client. If we can’t make this work, we’re out.” I said nervously circling the office.

“Ok, but do we have some kind of plan?” John asked.

To be honest, I didn’t have a plan. I was trying to come up with a solution to save the predicament. I had no doubt it could be done.

In the last three years, I did nothing but grow professionally. I’ve closed business after business. And all to forget about… “I mean, I know the guy is important, but is he that important?” John interrupted my thoughts, but not enough t