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30 million dollars, he always had to be one up her. Giselle could never

do anything right as far as Leroy was concerned, he made her feel like
her mother's family had always made her feel; as though Giselle was

slow and would never make it in this world. And that certainly was not
the case, somebody slow would not be in the position that Giselle

Thornburg is in, moving up the corporate ladder as she has! Slow

people don't build companies! Don't take her kindness for weakness,
my girl Giselle is a “gangsta” in business! What did she used to say?

Oh, she is a BSMU! Black Sister Moving Up! Roll with her or get rolled
over!

A couple of months from after she moved out of the house,
Leroy visited the office, and brought Giselle some flowers from the

yard, using her own vase. Giselle was done by then and his attempts
to get her back were futile! He must have seen the look on her face

that day because he immediately left. He was still so cheap; he felt he
could win her over with some raggedy-ass flowers with Wild Irish Rose

on his breath.

By summer, her daddy’s health had begun to fail, and the family

thought it would be best if she brought Big Poppa to live with her.
She was also on the watch with the bank, trying to get an extension on

the company’s line of credit to meet payroll. Considering the loss of

the 2-million-dollar contract in the previous year, Jerome’ buyout of
$8,000 per month plus the attorneys’ fees, they were barely meeting
payroll.

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