Chapter 105

Blake looked around the faces of the board members who sat around the large, polished mahogany table and groaned inwardly. A knife could cut through the tension in the air. He had gone to to the meeting a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. Knowing how traditional most of the board members could be.

His father wanted them to ratify Blake as the new president and chairman today, but Blake knew it wouldn't be that easy. A heated debate was going on as five out of the other seven board members expressed doubts about Blake's readiness to assume the position because of his single marital status.

Blake folded his hands on the desk and watched as the old men argued back and forth. Gerald, his father, had little to say too.

“Tell me,” Natalie, one of the two female members of the board, said. “Why it is compulsory that he had to be married to function as the President and chairman? We all know the young man just lost his wife.”

“Listen,” Rufus, the ringleader of those against Blake, said.