I was silent for a few moments, thinking about what a momentous moment this was in my business life.“Yes, Sir. Everyone here, plus yourself, has con...ributed to my education. I won’t pretend I know everything, but I know where I can go for instruction or advice. I’m very happy that you have the confidence in me to succeed my father. It’s important that I continue what he started here six years ago. I want to thank you, Emil, and of course, Walt, for your help and guidance. It’s been everything I. By this time, I had met and married my second husband, and we'd had two daughters together. He was more supportive of them than he was of my two older children. That was the first crack in our marriage: that he didn’t love all of my children equally, and that he favored those who were biologically his. The second crack had been growing for two years. I had gone back to school again, earning my Masters in Education. He couldn’t see the value in that, but I knew that the advanced degree would get. Few big men at his age of fifty kept themselves in such trim, she reflected for the millionth time, letting her eyes trail down over his powerful physique, actually appreciating the slight overhang of his belly above the menacing wagon-tongue-like cock poling out from his hair-matted loins.Yes, she could have been happy with him alone if things had been different, if he'd chosen to do anything else rather than play politics. But he'd been both ambitious and a profligate, and she had frowned on. The walls were lined with bookcases which held my library. There was also a fourth room smaller than the rest and it seemed to have been built on to the back wall of the house and I used it as a dining room.From the hall, the stairs led to a half landing and then turned back on themselves to the landing on the top floor. There was also a very small flight of three steps to the left which led to a large bedroom off the half landing. This room also had once had a dressing room off it. The.