Getting Lucky

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nced fall at Harvard, in Texas, and in too many other states and countries to bother m

was no place better to experience the season than right here in the city I’d called

erhaps the allure of retiring to Florida would become too much for

in, not that watered-down shit I hosed my insides with during summer. I could drink whiskey neat without it being warm and making me look like a total idiot.

the sixty-something-story skyscrapers that formed the skyline of my beloved city,

ed me to do. I’ve done more than you’ve asked of me, actual

calmly, and I arched an eyebrow. “Really? You’re arguing that you’ve don

dropped them back onto it one by one. “Jefferson, you forgot to make the trade. Khartoum, you lost th

t my dad’s firm—my firm one day. His name was

hands flying to his hair. “Those kinds

the Grand Canyon. “Are you actually trying to make excuses? And did I hear y

have happened,” he insisted stubbornly. “You can’t expec

re than eighty hours a week, and you d

’t grow up in this game. I’m doing the best I can, but realist

u’re not performing how I expect anyone on my team to be perfo

hink about it. I landed the Donnelly account, I got Smith out of that bind w

e other thing... “Smith wouldn’t have been in a bind with the Securities and Exchange Commission if it wasn’t for

m. It might as well have been stamped on his forehead. “You’re wrong. That wasn’t my fault. What do you know about it, any

his idiot thought he was going to get a rise out of me by insinuating

from a duck’s back. I knew that I kept my head down and I worked hard, just

I heard about every single thing that went down with the SEC. Who do you think drew up the report

ed loudly, throwing his

was begging for a punch, so it was best I didn’t look at him right that minute. “Now, I’m not look

I hadn’t already made up my mind that he was about to get fired, no matter w

r after they fucked up, feigning illness, and they definitely couldn’t come to me with bu

omplaining wouldn’t get you anywhere in life. You had to grab life by the proverbial balls and squeeze every

nd the city outside was thrumming with an energy I couldn’t feel from all the way up here. I was