Savage Reborn by Michael Todd

Author:Michael Todd [Todd, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642022957
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-05-21T22:00:00+00:00

Part Two

Chapter One

He had been called old-fashioned—hardly surprising, perhaps, since he’d been in this business since the first Bush took his presidential oath. Charles Stafford had been a member of the Pegasus board for over two decades and also many others over the years. He’d headed up various other companies and held leadership positions in all of them, as well as a dozen charitable foundations and even a couple of Minor League baseball teams.

It could be said that this defined who he was. After all, he’d done it for as long as he could remember. His secret was respect. People respected his opinion. They knew he was there to make the business go well and smoothly, a voice of reason to help anchor every generation’s free thinkers.

While it wasn’t a job everyone wanted to do, it was one he excelled at—and even reveled in, from time to time.

But at the center of his success was the respect he had for the people he worked with and they had for him. Even those who had been forced into conflict with him had always thought of him as a worthy opponent. He didn’t like the politics that came with running a business, and he always tried to keep everything he did out in the open. He wanted people to know he had outsmarted them, plain and simple.

Of course, it wasn’t always like that, but it was a nice footnote to have on his legacy that he always tried to play the game as respectfully as possible.

Given all that, the reason he was pissed right the fuck off as he marched his way into the Pegasus building was a matter of respect—or, rather, the lack of it in this case. If you called a meeting of the board, it was only respectful to be there in person when they convened. He understood not being in the country when things were happening to genuinely prevent one’s presence. Attending an emergency board meeting via a camera and a microphone was acceptable. People couldn’t be in two places at once, and those running operations like Pegasus certainly had many other responsibilities across the globe.

And in this situation, having lost two board members—one to death and one to widely publicized arrest and subsequent resignation—in as many months certainly spelled emergency in his book.

But if Dr. Courtney Monroe wanted to assemble the members of the board herself, she could at least extend them the common courtesy to be there.

He wasn’t being fair and knew that as he stepped into the elevator with his assistant—a young woman who knew to keep her mouth shut when he was in a mood like this. Monroe had proved surprisingly competent, and now that her little war with Carlson was over, Charles really wanted to see what she could do.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t off to the best of starts if this was how she intended to continue.

The elevator pinged to announce their arrival at the appropriate floor. He immediately scuttled off as fast as his limbs could carry him to the conference room where the meeting would be held.

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