Chapter 5 The Return

• Preston came back into the city on a Thursday, and he brought the wreckage with him.
• I found out the way I found out most things about Preston these days secondhand, from a company-wide memo forwarded by someone in HR who clearly had no idea what she was setting off.
• His engagement to the senator's daughter had collapsed, spectacularly and very publicly, over some financial scandal on her family's side that had dominated the business pages for the better part of a week.