The board room was filled with more people than Estephan had ever seen there before, bad news does bring people together he thought. They hardly held board meetings as most of the partners of the company where silent partners who had complete trust in him to run the affairs of the company and their names only came up when it was time to share in the profits at the end of the year. There were over fifteen people all sited in the board room waiting for Estephan including Raymond. It was only a year ago Raymond became a share holder in the company and the shares were a gift from Estephan to him. As Estephan walked in, he was frightened by the large crowd but he couldn’t let them see that he was frightened, he could not appear weak in front of them . He sat down at far end of the table while
