After 6 months there, the Vardane branch's project came to a successful close.
In those 6 months, I'd endured the choking sand and brought two exceptionally difficult projects worth over 100 million dollars each to completion.
In truth, it hadn't been as difficult as I'd expected, because I'd persuaded every key client Jimmy's company depended on to sign contracts with our company instead, all fair and square.
Jimmy had always assumed those powerful business owners worked with him as a personal favor.
He had no idea who'd spent the past 5 years carrying out the lengthy corporate background checks, managing his financial risks, and quietly smoothing things over and covering for him at all those boozy business dinners.
Once I was gone, his shoddily run company, already riddled with prob
