The only reason he didn't is because I'm blessed in other areas.
She doesn't respond. I wait for five minutes, keeping her profile open in one window. I hit refresh every minute or so to make sure that she's still logged on. Looks like I lost her already. Bummer. Oh well.
Even though I've had my fun, I feel a strange need to get more responses. Knowing that I have so many women right at my fingertips is something that I've never felt before. Well, not like this. Going to a club and walking up to talk to a woman is easy. But this takes easy to an entirely new level. I don't even have to leave the comfort of my own home. Of course, that also means that the journey to get into a woman's pants is a lot more arduous. I can probably change that if I update my profile picture to something more alluring. While I still don't want to show my face, I am curious how many women I could net in with something else.
I open the folder with my photos in it. With my actual photos. I modify a few of my shirtless ones to crop out my head and upload half a dozen of those to my profile. Then I shut down my laptop and go to bed, wondering what I'll manage to reel in tomorrow.
***
I always get a rush when I sign the paperwork to take over a company. Even though every company I buy is thoroughly researched before I make the purchase, there's still the tiniest hint of the unknown. With this company, more than a lot of others. I'm still confident that I can make it work, though. That I can take what Freddie Montanez started and turn it into the most successful personal matchmaking service in all of Houston. Once I get the profits to where I need them to be, it will be time to expand—to branch out to other cities. Replicating successful businesses is another one of my specialties.
Making money has always come easy to me. I wish I could say it was an innate gift, but I spent a lot of time in college learning the ins and outs of acquiring and managing various businesses. Wealth has always been my biggest aspiration. I've put accumulating it before everything else: my friends, my family, my social life. Some people—well, a lot of people, actually—would call me a workaholic. I'm fine with it. That's why I'm able to buy whatever I want. Go wherever I want. Do whatever I want. That's why I'm one of the richest guys in the city.
After signing and finalizing all of the documents with Freddie Montanez and our lawyers, I head back to my office to put together my business plan for the new management team. Implementation will be a slow process at first. I've had a small glimpse of how the business runs on a day to day basis, but I want to take a month to observe it before making any drastic changes. See what works. See what's not working. Poll the current client base for feedback on the types of services they'd like to see provided. Sometimes, the greatest gems don't come from within the company. They come from the customers themselves. A smart business owner never overlooks customer feedback.
That doesn't mean that I'm going to leave things completely unchanged, though. On Monday morning, Freddie will be stepping out, and my management team will be coming in to take his place. As of now, Freddie handles everything himself, which is probably why he's had such a hard time keeping his profits consistent. It's likely also the reason why he hasn't bothered firing some of the undesirables. Between managing HR, PR, sales, and his matchmaking team, the guy has to be overwhelmed. And when people are overwhelmed, they tend to make mistakes.
I flip through the pile of paperwork on my desk, jotting down notes that I want to bring up at the meeting that I'll have with the new management team later. Then I fire up Full Heart Matchmaking Service's HR software and start looking at the details of the employees I want to get rid of. The two sales associates have worked there for less than six months, so that shouldn't be much of an issue. To my surprise, when I