“Wait. Sit down. I am that same woman, and where were you going, anyway? I just resigned—well, not exactly resigned; I gave up some of the titles so I could come here.”
For once Jade’s thoughts and words agreed as she asked, “What made you give up the power and money you spent all your life getting? No one walks away from that, ever. Who forced you out?”
“No one forced me. My son took over, but—look at me. I’m not young, but I’m too young to spend my life locked in conference rooms listening to old men and children fight about ad campaigns, and investment management, and production quotas. It was different when Liam was alive. We built the company and took joy in running it. We got as big as we dared—governments have a way of being nasty if you get bigger than they are—and moved it offic
