Neil stretched and then bent to touch his toes, working out the kinks from packing up the last of his personal belongings in the office that had been his for the past twenty years.
Twenty-two actually. He grinned at the thought, then sighed. Now it and the company belong to someone else.
He’d been twenty-six years old when he’d founded Payne Architecture, using money inherited from his grandfather. The company had succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, turning what had been a small, local business into a profitable, nationally known architectural firm.
He had also been newly married. His mother’s comment had been the classic marry in haste, repent in leisure. Both he and Alicia had repented as the years passed. Neil suspected they would have divorced long before now if she hadn’t liked th
