The letter ended the same way they all did. Thank you for caring.
"I'm too damn busy to care," Tyler snarled at his secretary, who'd just deposited today's stack of heartrending pleas for cash on the corner of his steel and glass desk.
"You always are," Olivia Payne agreed cheerfully. With her graying hair held back in a bun, she looked staid and professional—an appearance that was entirely deceptive. She nodded at the letter Tyler held in his hand. "Anything interesting?"
Tyler fanned out the four pages of closely written text dotted with exclamation points. "Some guy wants two hundred grand to save the red spotted tree frog. If we don't act fast, we might never see the frog again."
He picked up another letter—a single page e mail asking for thirty thousand dollars to buy computers for a preschool— and weighed it against the frog letter, as if he could somehow gauge the relative worthiness of the two causes.
The Warrington Foundation, whose purpose was t ...
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