I'm still trying to figure out exactly what emotion I felt when Charlene Ericsson called and asked to see me. I was shocked ... apprehensive, but there was another emotion that I couldn't quite identify. Charlene Ericsson has never spoken to me before. Granted, I attended a handful of the social events hosted by the group of rich women, but on the rare occasion that I mustered the courage to face those women at those events, no more than two people would talk to me. Charlene Ericsson was never one of those people. She had a presence to her that made people want to please her. She entered a room with grace, class and an aura that made everyone gravitate towards her. Had she chosen to be promiscuous, I have no doubt, a lot of men would have had affairs with her. And had Brian not been b

