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“I have to run now your father isa racket outside with the car I love you ood”

“Will do, I will speak with you over the weekend”

I hung up the phone and walked over to the bank of s in the penthouse suite It had been one of those trying days where everything that could possibly go wrong did And that includes the phone call that just ended

As head of e firm in the midst of the worst recession anyone had seen in over fifty years it hasn’t been easy for the past year or so

I’ve had to forsake everything else, except food and sleep to take care of things, with very little tiations In short, it’s been some time since I’ve been laid, or even felt the need

Who has time for that when your livelihood and that of the thousands of people working for you are at stake? Well not so much mine, the market can crash six ways from Sunday and I’ll still have the sa the first number in my account, but my people may not all be that lucky

So I’d benched my oants and needs for the last little while to concentrate allthe coenerations

Thankfully we’ve been able to keep our heads above water while soStill, I had to work that much harder to see that we not only survived but that we stayed on top

There were a hell of a lot of people trying to topple us over Most of thes They didn’t count onthe expertise of htI know

I’ve wanted this coh to know that it would one day be et here and now that I’ to fail

My age has been a deterrent and a blessing in disguise I’d taken over right out of college, a little ht I was too young to do business with, and soe I would be easily taken advantage of They had no idea who they were dealing with