"You wanna know what went wrong?" Leland's shoulders rise and fall with a heavy breath. "You really wanna know? Fine."
He turns the chair more directly toward them, his hands flattening on the armrests again.
"Mark came to blackmail me. He put it all together, about the breakdowns and how they were all customers of mine who quit buying. He said he'd expose me. Stop me taking any new customers, just like you said. Except he had an 'unless.'"
His mouth twists again. "Unless I supplied him free of charge for as long as he wanted, and started splitting the take with him. His words."
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Date: 2008-09-28 06:46 pm (UTC)He turns the chair more directly toward them, his hands flattening on the armrests again.
"Mark came to blackmail me. He put it all together, about the breakdowns and how they were all customers of mine who quit buying. He said he'd expose me. Stop me taking any new customers, just like you said. Except he had an 'unless.'"
His mouth twists again. "Unless I supplied him free of charge for as long as he wanted, and started splitting the take with him. His words."