Dial - Season 1 - Episode 3

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 3

So that was my life, basically.

A handsome young man whose father had left him with millions.

I knew how badly my father had had it in life, and how he had sweated to make it. Thus, it was important to me that I kept my Dad’s legacy blazing.

I studied hard, and when I took over the companies, the general perception had been that I would leave the running to the old hawks my father had appointed.

Nope. I got into the core of the business, and where I spotted corruption I la!d them off pronto!

Some of my father’s managers thought I was young and inexperienced so they could throw fast and illegal manoeuvres into the system and get away with it. Well, I found out, and booted them out.

The perception then changed: they now said I was going to run the companies into the ground and ruin them.

Wrong!

I cracked the whip where it was needed, praised where it was needed, and surrounded myself with a dedicated group that knew they could trust me…and we expanded, and we made more money.

BIKO AND SON grew huge.

So I had no care in the world, and didn’t trust any woman really, no.

My mother tried to make us smoke the peace pipe, and make up for lost time. She was genuinely remorseful, yes, and I was convinced about that. Trouble was, it came too late! I felt nothing for her because each time I saw her she reminded me of the pain my old man went through in life.

My mother had remarried somewhere along the line, to a man from a good background and a respectable industrialist. It seemed that somewhere along the line the two families joined their companies together. My mother gave birth to two children, both female, incidentally. Well, I monitored that great company that belonged to the families of my mother and her husband.