Six Years in the Shadows: The CEO's Discarded Love

The night I lost the promotion, I crouched by the roadside with a box of fried calamari.

I ate them one by one, and the tears came down just as steadily.

I texted my girlfriend, Lucretia Henson:

【Kind of a rough day, but the calamari's good.】

No reply.

Half an hour later, I couldn't help sending another:

【You busy? I just want to talk to you.】

She finally answered:

【What's this supposed to mean? You want me to reimburse you?】

I stared at that line for a long time.

Lucretia's startup had barely gotten off the ground when her father drained every cent of her funding, and overnight she…