Comeback: Love Was For The Foolish

ut the rest of the world. The room smelled of old books and his expensive, su

ssive desk. His face, usually a mask of corporate steel, was etched with concern. He had built an

. Mark, Jake, and Chris are the brightest minds in my company. They have ambition, tale

tress. He didn' t realize he had ha

flat, devoid of the tears he probably expected. The tears had all dried up a week

k has known you since you were a child. I saw the way y

anymore. It was just a name, a ghost. "What would make me happy,

et him once, at a charity gala, for five minutes. You want to cancel the arrangements with Mark and the others for a man you

out blinking. "That' s exactly what i

died listening to Mark laugh with Lily about how he would finally get his hands on my inheritance, how he couldn' t

only thing that mattered. Love was a

"I want a fortress of my own. Sterling Corp is bigger than us. An alliance with

liver of pride. He was a businessman, after all. He understood ambition. He just never

a cold p

er. You taught me that. I

e crying over a scraped knee, the girl who believed in happily ever after. She was gone. In her place was a wo

all to the Sterlings. And I will handle Mark, Jake, and

anding up. My moveme

door, I paused.

looked at

very fond of her. I' m sure he' ll want to protect her, even afte

a sob story. He prided himself on being a man of the people. "She' s just an

as ice. "You can keep her, you can fire her. It makes no diff

earned for his approval, was a ghost in that room. I felt nothing for him now. No, that wasn' t true. I fe

make sure they pa