“That phrase has never improved an accounting problem.”
He almost smiled.
I didn’t.
“How much?”
“Four hundred eighty thousand.”
“And Mercer & Lane?”
“A restaurant project.”
“Your mother owns a restaurant project?”
“She and two friends were opening an event venue with a restaurant attached.”
“Were?”
His silence answered.
“Rowan.”
“The financing fell apart.”
“When?”
“January.”
“What does that mean for the guarantee?”
He looked exhausted.
“It means there may be exposure.”
“How much exposure?”
“I don’t know yet.”
“You work in compliance.”
“I know.”
“You understand personal guarantees better
