Chapter 24 - Mercer Ridge

The company did not survive intact.
It entered restructuring.
Sold two projects.
Cut staff.
A competitor purchased one operating division.
Some employees lost jobs.
That hurt.
Ryan had used those employees repeatedly as emotional leverage:
“Sign or seventy families suffer.”
In the end, his attempt to avoid a controlled restructuring made the collapse worse.
The lender never touched my inheritance.
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I never signed the guarantee.
My children’s future was not pledged to rescue a company I did not control.