the time he reached the sidewalk, I was already in the back of a cab, watching the city lights blur past my window.
My phone began buzzing almost immediately. Calls, voicemails, text messages from him and from a few of his closer friends. I did not answer any of them.
Instead, I made three calls of my own. The first was to my law firm, letting my senior partner know that I would be removing myself from a particular client matter immediately.
The second call was to the bank that