For Nine Years He Mistook My Silence for Surrender; What He Never Understood Was That Every Dinner I Didn’t Fight About Was a Day I Stayed Close Enough to Gather What I Needed to End Him
“Thank you all for coming on such short notice.
As many of you know, my wife, Simone, has been going through a difficult personal breakdown — and I’m afraid it’s begun to bleed into the business.
What she’s attempting here is a hostile takeover of the company, based entirely on personal grievances that have nothing to do with any of you.” The investors shifted in their chairs.
It was a good performance.
It was, I had to admit, very nearly convincing.