When Owen heard all this, he thought it was absolutely insane. He said, "You desecrated your own mother's ashes and ground them to dust for this woman, and even fathered a child out of wedlock while you were still married. From now on, you're fired as general manager of my branch company."
For years, Eliot and his mother had leached off Owen to get by. Everyone on the outside thought Eliot was a trust-fund kid, but the truth was he was nothing without Owen's backing.
Eliot froze up, panic shooting through him. He pleaded, "Uncle Owen, my mom's already dead. You can't just abandon me. You watched me grow up, for God's sake."
I knew he would play the emotional card, so I cut straight through his act and exposed him. I said, "Behind your back, he calls you a cheapskate who won't part with
