Yes, how can we stay ahead of them?

Seated atop the stage, Andy suddenly sighed.

“Good question. This brings me to my next point: talent!”

“I know that it’s not appropriate to talk about this at university where meritocracy is the norm,” he continued with a wink, “but we have to admit that it plays a role. Some people, like this friend of mine, are able to spot innocuous clues at a glance.”

At the sudden mention of his friend with such prophetic abilities, the students in the hall began to engage in a buzz of speculations. They were eager to learn the identity of such a talented individual.

Susan was one of them.

“She is a woman,” Andy proclaimed, smiling with pride and nostalgia. “A decade younger than me, but what a talent she had for financial forecasting. In fact, she predicted the famous oil riot in Zaewora and made me a fortune.”

The mysterious introduction only served to excite the students even more.

“Who is she, Professor? Where is she working now? Is there any chance of her giving a lecture?”

Andy chuckled.

“She’s retired from public life and is very happy remaining home with her husband and children. Even I am unable to make an appointment with her,” he remarked only half-jokingly.

 

It’s true. She’s a powerful woman now. I’m not even qualified to shine her shoes.

lasted a full two hours. The sun was already disappearing down the western horizon when the trio emerged from

these things

merely nodded without

Eager to participate in

part about his friend. It shocked me to

vigorously in

surprising response to that. “He’d exaggerated a little. Though he did make a fortune from the oil riot back then, he

at him with

“How do you know?”

casually before striding ahead with his schoolbag on his back, leaving the girls behind thunderstruck by his proclamation that was uttered with as much enthusiasm as if it had been a statement of

His mother!

the university on their way to dinner,

to be the director of the operational

well-versed in finance as in medicine! That explains how her son managed to complete the building project so beautifully at only seventeen years of age. He has

left behind, she stamped her feet before hurrying up to them. “Can I come along? I did

the intrusion, Susan readily

more the merrier, Zaylynn. We’re having KFC for dinner, is

Zaylynn said at once. “I’m

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