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He could still remember the way she’d looked at him

“Living things need more than that to flourish Even these trees Even you”

Marco sipped at the coffee

He’d ended the foolish conversation by taking her back to bed but their affair had not lasted very long after that

“I want more,” she’d told him, and they’d both known she hadn’t ifts, just as they’d both known that he didn’t have ive

He had, once

A decade ago

In two short, a years he’d made his first million, made his second, his third and fourth He’d also ht, and asked her to marry him

At first, things were fine Co day was new to hi someone to care about

A business opportunity ca

It was risky If he invested in it, he couldhe had He didn’t think that would happen, but when you took risk, there was always that possibility Still, he was young Hardworking And he had a wo beside him who loved him

Wrong

He told his wife about the investave it

If he lost everything, she said calmly, he would also lose her What about love? he said, and she said, What about it?

The divorce was quick, the settleot out of him substantial