A Trust Betrayed

ED STOVALL, 62, owner of the Wheatality Baking Co. in St. Cloud, Minnesota, is seething over something he has just noticed in his son Gary's expense report. The bill lists restaurant and motel charges in Chicago, on a weekend when his 33-year-old son was supposed to be in New York City attending a marketing course. Ed suspects that his son visited a married woman he's been seeing in Chicago that weekend instead of going to New York.

“Please tell me that this is a mistake,” he asks after bursting into his son's office. When Gary admits that he was in Chicago seeing Cynthia, and that he had put some expenses on the company card because his own had not been accepted in a few places, Ed Stovall can barely contain his anger.

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