Fortune's Mergers. Bronwyn Jameson
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Название: Fortune's Mergers
Автор: Bronwyn Jameson
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
Серия: Mills & Boon By Request
isbn: 9781408970553
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How long had it been since he’d seen her last? he wondered. Ten years? Probably closer to twelve. The summer before she began college, she’d made a brief visit home. He remembered the visit well. The flash of temper she’d displayed when he’d told her he was leaving on a business trip the day after her arrival. But he’d seen hurt in her eyes, as well. The disappointment. And that’s the memory that haunted him now.
It hadn’t at the time, he thought sadly. He’d dismissed the guilt, just as he had each time he’d witnessed similar reactions from his wife. He’d done so by telling himself that his business was important, that all the time he spent building Reynolds Refining was for his family, his wife and daughter. Hadn’t he provided them a cushy life? A regal home, a respected place in society, the finest of everything money could buy?
But now that he was facing his mortality, he realized the mistakes he’d made, all that he’d lost, just as his wife had tried to tell him so many times in the past. He was fifty-seven years old, still young really, but alone in the world. He’d driven his wife to suicide by allowing his ambition to supercede her needs and destroyed whatever chance he might’ve had at a relationship with his daughter.
And for what? he asked himself in frustration. A damn company. Earlier that week, he’d heard a Country Western song on the radio that pretty well capsulized the lesson he’d learned. The guy had been singing something about there not being any luggage racks on a hearse.
How true, he acknowledged sadly. He’d dedicated his life to building and collecting things. And now that he was facing the end of his life, he realized the mistakes he’d made, the lives he’d damaged, all he’d lost. In chasing the illusive rainbow of success, he’d sacrificed what was most important.
Family.
He dropped his head back against the chair with a sigh. For a man who’d spent the majority of his life alone, he’d never once suffered loneliness.
But now that he was facing death, it seemed loneliness was his constant companion.
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