The Sign Above The Door
Calloway & Sons — Built on Trust.
Marcus Calloway walked past it every morning without looking up. He’d stopped seeing it a long time ago — the way you stop seeing a picture that’s hung on the same wall your whole life. It was just part of the building. Part of the furniture. Part of a story he’d inherited but wasn’t sure he still believed.
Inside, the company hummed along the way it always had. Forty-two employees. Three divisions. A client list that filled two binders on the shelf behind his desk. From the outside, Calloway & Sons looked exactly like what it was supposed to be — a successful, stable, second-generation business doing solid work in a mid-sized city that needed it.
But Marcus was tired in a way that sleep couldn’t fix.