Chapter 48: Reputation Reversal
Horizon did not collapse. Companies like Horizon rarely collapsed from one dirty move. They had layers. Departments. Legal language. People trained to turn guilt into procedural misunderstanding. But Martin He lost his shine. That was enough for now. The story moved through Southport's business circles in the careful way dangerous stories move. No one wrote: Horizon bribed NE Growth's assistant. People wrote: Heard someone tried to buy strategy decks. Be careful with file access. Small agencies should watch big agency sales teams. Grant Lighting still launched successfully. Interesting. Interesting did a lot of work. Three owners who had paused conversations with us came back. One apologized directly. Two pretended their schedules had simply cleared. Nora made a column i
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