The four men left sitting at the table after Brian and Cassie left clinked glasses and chuckled.

“Brian’s the first one to fall,” Barry said.

“No, I think that was you,” Jonathon said.

Barry looked towards the door through which Cassie and Brian had left. “I never fell like that,” he said wistfully.

“Have you heard from her?” Declan asked before taking a sip of his drink.

Barry shook his head. “Nope,” he said, “I don’t expect to either.”

Barry Benson. From the outside, he looked like a don’t-mess-with-me corporate shark…which was kind of what he was. He traveled the world buying up failing businesses, stripping them down to only...