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Her blood heated to a furious level; bubbled and boiled andthreatened to spill over into an expression of uncontrolled rage Now sheknehy Because Jared Stone was aThe worst of aSilicon Valley breed

He was…horrific

She forced a sip of the excessively strong java into her mouthbefore she lost it completely and slaaze back to her coifted the male population with

Rule Number 1—All women are crazy And by that Iht as well comefrom another planet You need to find the least crazy one you can live withIf you elect to settle dohich I’, mind you

Rule Nuer and thewhite picket fence Nofor the stateof the nuclear family or for you if you’re already on that trajectory Butfor God’s sake knohat you’re getting yourself into

Rule Number 3—Every woman wants a lion in the bedroom Shewants to be dominated She wants you to be in complete control She doesn’twant you to listen to her “needs” So stopthat mistake Be aman

Rule Nuenda Acause, an item to strike off her list, the inescapable conclusion of aca, ree to meet her mother…Whatever it is, take it frooodbye run

Bailey stopped reading for the sake of herblood pressure Here she’d been worrying that the personality conflict she andJared shared, which ad that hadbeen holding her back Their desire to rip each other apart every tiendary within the company, but thathadn’t been it No—in actual fact, he disrespected the entire femalerace

She’d never even had a chance

Three years, she fu at her computerscreen as she pulled up a blank docuocentric jerk, racking up domestic sales of his wildly popular cell phones andcomputers… For what? It had all been a complete waste of ti A CEO by thirty-five, she’d vowed Although thatvision see fast…

She pressed her lips together and started typing To whoanization with that pig at thehel principle I’ve ever hadShe kept going, wrote the letter without holding back, until her blood hadcooled and her rage was spent Then she did a second version she could hand into HR