The Algorithm (Corps Justice Book 20) by C. G. Cooper

Author:C. G. Cooper [Cooper, C. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JBD Entertainment, LLC
Published: 2023-07-09T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

PHILLIP DARROW — PERTH, AUSTRALIA

Phillip lived a good life. He ran a successful small business providing marketing services to law offices all over Australia. He was known as a hardworking, honest, good family man. He and his wife had two children, a thirteen-year-old girl and a ten-year-old boy. Relatives and friends always loved their family Christmas cards.

He'd met his wife around the time his business had started taking off. It had been a whirlwind courtship. In her, he'd found his home—his oasis. She’d been working as a legal assistant at one of the law offices he’d been wooing, and they’d both had little free time. But as was the custom with young love, they’d made time for one another. Each night, long after the sun had set, they’d raced into each other's arms and loved passionately.

He'd been overjoyed when their children had been born. Parenting had come second-nature to them, and they’d been a strong team from the get-go, working together to fill their children’s lives with love and comfort. Before long, they’d settled into a picture-perfect life: a nice suburban home, two beautiful children excelling in private school, one family vacation per year, and one parents-only getaway.

A dreamer since birth, Phillip was a romantic who’d never understood how a couple could let their passion run out. But over time, slowly, subtly, a rift had grown between him and his wife. Perhaps because they’d stopped prioritizing their own love and comfort. Whatever the origin, the rift had sown seeds of dissatisfaction within Phillip. He very much loved his wife and was attracted to her. They'd both aged, but to him, she was the most beautiful woman in the world.

That's why the lack of intimacy hurt him.

He craved to be with her, to feel her touch, but she would not give it, and he didn't know why.

To fill the void, he spent hours online. When he should have been working, he read articles on reinvigorating marriages and rekindling passion. Still, everything he tried fell flat, whether because of his awkward delivery or because his wife no longer cared. He didn’t believe the latter to be the case—at least, not exactly. He knew in his gut that she loved him. She’d also shown him she needed him in other ways.

Nevertheless, the resentment in him continued to grow.

And then, over the span of a week, his company lost three major contracts in rapid succession, all from longtime clients he’d picked up in his early days of business. They each blamed organizational restructuring, but Phillip knew the truth: they were leaving him for personal reasons in a culmination of old resentments. In the days that followed, he sought comfort from his wife. She rebuffed him.

So, instead of yearning for her or dwelling on his failures, he went to work.

He followed small business influencers on Blinker and did a real deep dive into how they worked. He outlined ways that he could use the same tactics and techniques for his clients. He realized that even though he told the world his firm was leading innovation in marketing, he'd fallen behind.

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