Failed online businesses.
Then she borrowed nearly a million dollars from a private lender trying to rescue a beauty brand that had already collapsed.
My parents called an emergency family dinner.
Dad slid a folder toward me.
“Your business is worth enough.”
I stared at him.
“Enough for what?”
“To sell,” Mom said. “Madison needs nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars by the end of the month.”
Madison did not even look embarrassed.
She sipped wine and said,
“You can start another company.”
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