# THOMPSON-HAYES: BLOOD MONEY
## Chapter Thirty-Seven — Thompson-Hayes Stands
The spring board meeting was on a Thursday afternoon in late March.
Mia had been preparing for it since February — not the legal portion, which Patricia handled, and not the investor portion, which Nathan managed — but the part that was specifically hers. The part that required standing at the front of a room and presenting the full true picture of a company that had survived a sustained campaign designed to unmake it and had come out the other side not just intact but growing.
She had written the executive summary herself. Three pages. No language borrowed from consultants or communications firms. Her own words in her own order, the way she wrote everything that mattered.
She sat at the head of the boardroo
