Casper Irritation clogged my veins, making it hard for me to concentrate on the meeting going on right in front of me. At thirty-seven, I had everything going on right for me. I loved power, and never once let up the opportunity to grasp more, and in ways that were both fair, and not so fair, but necessary. People feared me, and I reveled in it. It was what got me to where I was. I sat at the head of the conference table of my company, surrounded by the shareholders as they argued back and forth about a topic I had long since forgotten. Heck, all I wanted to do was get the f**k out of here. Anywhere was better than sitting and listening to all the noise. She had f*****g left me. I had opened my eyes that morning to see her side of the bed empty. No woman had ever done that to me.

