The Better Man, Chapter 1
"Let the better man win." Jack does just that. After all, he loves his wife so much that he wants only the best for her.
I was having trouble falling asleep. I kept going over the events of the evening in my mind. It had been a noisy party, much more crowded than usual for a trade-related event. But the conversation, the one occurrence I kept replaying, had been perfectly clear. “I’m looking you over as a possible acquisition,” he said. The more I thought about it, the odder it sounded in my mind’s ear. And there was something in his voice,...