Murray quickly reviewed the situation and called the project manager.

"Terminate them. Every single one."

"What? Are you serious?" The manager thought he must have misheard.

These were the company's top priority projects, some on the verge of paying off. And now they were being axed out of the blue?

"Did I stutter?" Murray's voice was icy.

"No, sir."

"Is it really that tough to get?"

"...Not exactly."

"Then what's the issue?"

The manager was sweating bullets. "Mr. Sherwood, I just don't understand..."

"You don't need to understand. Just do it."

...

Shutting down over twenty projects and figuring out how to minimize the losses-all of it was concrete and challenging.

finished, it was

stood by the floor-to-ceiling windows of his office, looking out at the night sky. The moon shone brightly above, the city lights a distant haze. He remembered how she stood by him, ready to take on the

let all

words echoed in

forms, but the hardest to swallow is when everyone tells you how great a woman you lost. Before, they said nothing. But now, after everything was beyond repair,

mansion and found the living room

mentioned he had met

rays of

up and

not bothering to

After eating she slipped out for

classes that morning, she took a detour to

woke up, not only was breakfast ready, but fresh

"Around 6:30."

"That early?"

just

kitchen and saw the meat and

Rosded. "The pork ribs

looked

today. two pounds. Dad, how

I'll take care of it. You

a knock

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