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again—you
look beautiful, Jennifer.”
    “I wish I felt beautiful.”
    “Are you still feeling sick?”
    “Just with concern.”
    “Don’t be.”
    I ran my fingers through his
hair.   “Have I told you how much I
love you, Alex?   And how sorry I am
that this is happening to you?   Because I am sorry.   You of all people deserve better than this.   This shouldn’t be happening to you.   They shouldn’t be treating you this
way.”
    He shrugged.   “But they are.   It is what it is.   I’ve been here before.   I’ll make a statement, and we’ll see if
that’s enough to settle down the media, as well as our investors.”
    “How did it go with the board?”
    “Let’s just say that some of them
are less than pleased with me.”
    “Is Stephen Rowe among them?”
    He furrowed his brow at me.   “Why would you ask that?”
    I told him about my conversation
with Blackwell.
    “You got into an argument with
her?”
    “Only out of concern for
you—but yes, it got intense in her office.   But I haven’t taken it personally.   She and I are friends—we’ll work
it out.   Both of us are just worried
about you.   We see thing
differently, that’s all.   You know I
love her.   And I hope that she knows
it, too.”
    “She does.”
    “She and Bernie are going to pull
me together for tomorrow night’s event.   All we need is a little space from each other.   For the rest of the day, I’m going to
let things cool off between us.   When I see her tomorrow night, I’ll address our little argument with a
joke.   That should break the ice,
and get us back on track.   It’s not
a big deal.”
    “How does she see things?”
    “She’s particularly worried about
Stephen Rowe’s intentions.”
    “She should be.”
    “So, she was right?”   I checked myself.   “But when isn’t she right?”
    “You don’t know him like she
does.   How could you?”
    “She said that he was a snake in
the grass.”
    “He is.   I wish I’d known that when I invited him
to join the board, but I didn’t.   He
seemed like a good fit.   He seemed
like a good guy.”
    “Can he cause you any trouble?”
    “With some effort—yes.   But if I act swiftly enough and turn
this around in our favor, he won’t have that chance.   Time isn’t on his side.   The stock will rebound.   Hopefully, it will do just that after
our investors hear what I’m going to say at the press conference.”
    “What are you going to say?”
    “That the SlimPhone is a hit.   In two weeks, we’ve sold
over two million units.   That’s a
win by anyone’s standards, but few in the media reported any of that this
morning.   And then there are all the
other things that are happening with Wenn.   Lisa and several of our other best-selling authors are about to come out
with new books through Wenn Publishing within the next few weeks.   In fact, Wenn Publishing is way up for
the quarter, a fact that the press also ignored.   So is Wenn Productions, which scored a
huge hit last weekend with our thriller, ‘From Manhattan with Love.’   We also just sealed a pilot with NBC for
our new series, ‘Fifth Avenue’.   The
press overlooked all of this today—they decided to leave it out and focus
on the negative, because that’s what sells papers.   It’s also the negative that draws
viewers, and web hits.   All they
looked at were today’s numbers, which admittedly were crushed by the
development of our phone.   But you
know what’s really big that not one single reporter touched upon?”
    “Of course I do.   Wenn Pharmaceutical.”
    “That’s right.   Our new HIV inhibitor is a game changer
because it kills mutated versions of the virus before it attacks T-cells.   It’s a revolutionary way to fight the
virus, and it promises an even more effective way than other drugs to sustain
one’s life to its natural conclusion.   It’s already passed final trials.   In the next few months, I’m confident that