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Chapter 3

"This could be it, honey… tonight could be it," Jack Hollister said nervously, clutching the wheel tightly with both hands. He and Pam were on their way to the annual company party.

"Why tonight?" Pam asked. Jack could barely make out her features as she stared bemusedly out the windshield into the lights of approaching cars. She was as far over on her own side of the seat as she could get.

"It's got to be tonight!" Jack said explosively. "Old Carstairs retires tomorrow and the vice-presidency will be open. J.B. hates to have any loose ends around the office. And besides," he added more thoughtfully,

"he likes to drop bombshells at these parties. It'll either be me or Harry Steers. The old bastard would get a kick out of making the announcement and then watch the loser trying to keep a poker face in front of the whole staff."

"If you think your boss is such a horrible man, why do you work for him?" Pam asked quietly.

"They're all that way," Jack said bitterly. "Every financial company in town is run by some narrow bastard who clawed his way up over a pile of bodies and then likes to step on the fingers of anybody else who tries to make it over the top."

"And thinking that way, you still want to work in such a business?" Pam asked. "What makes you think you would turn cut any different than