Ethan
I thought that only her name or her presence would be part of my present that night, at that event. But no, both she, and what she was now, began to resonate more than I expected.
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I never doubted that that contract was going to be mine.
Not because I was arrogant — or not only because of that — but because everything was aligned as it had always been, the previous calls, the cordial emails, the shared background. When you move for years in the same circles, you learn to recognize when a meeting is decisive... and when is just a confirmation.
I inherited the Blackwood Enterprises company when my father felt that the time had come to retire. I was ready, I had prepared all my life for that... When the company came into my hands, it was already positioned in the market as one o
