Chapter 36 ELSIE Half a million dollars. Apparently that’s what it takes to bail out one of the biggest businessmen in the world. Jackson Enterprises was a behemoth and Christopher Jackson was the beast behind the wheel. An investment firm started the day that Christopher stepped out of Wharton Business School, the burgeoning company was given new breath when it opened its Kansas City doors, conquering the sunny Sunflower state and all of middle America with it. Christopher Jackson and his family were thought to be the best thing to happen to our little city, a beacon of wealth amidst the middling families. Families like my own. I remember once thinking Carole Jackson had it all. She made it look so easy. Being married to Christopher. Running a household while her multi-million dolla

