Stopping Short: a Hot Baseball Romance
““You have to understand. I’m taking a beating in the press. But I negotiated for that golden parachute fair and square, and I deserve every penny of my payout.”
Fifty-seven million dollars. That was a lot of pennies. Especially for a guy who’d basically driven an investment bank into the ground, disrupting its business so badly that half a dozen federal agencies were looking into what went wrong, along with every financial journalist in the business.
Chip’s response was a lot more soothing than... Jessica could have managed. “Of course you do, Don. I’ll tell you what. We’ll put together a plan over the weekend. Print, television, social media, the whole nine yards. You go on up to Vermont and don’t spend another minute worrying about it. We can sit down Monday afternoon and go over everything.”
As Jessica listened to the familiar pitch, the cajoling she’d heard a hundred times before, she looked out the broad window behind Chip’s desk. He had a view of Central Park, of the controlled greenery that passed for wilderness for most New York residents.MoreLess
Fifty-seven million dollars. That was a lot of pennies. Especially for a guy who’d basically driven an investment bank into the ground, disrupting its business so badly that half a dozen federal agencies were looking into what went wrong, along with every financial journalist in the business.
Chip’s response was a lot more soothing than... Jessica could have managed. “Of course you do, Don. I’ll tell you what. We’ll put together a plan over the weekend. Print, television, social media, the whole nine yards. You go on up to Vermont and don’t spend another minute worrying about it. We can sit down Monday afternoon and go over everything.”
As Jessica listened to the familiar pitch, the cajoling she’d heard a hundred times before, she looked out the broad window behind Chip’s desk. He had a view of Central Park, of the controlled greenery that passed for wilderness for most New York residents.MoreLess
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