Graduate students and business majors jostled each other and jockeyed for a place. Taylor couldn’t find an empty seat anywhere so she walked down the aisle near the front and stood off to the side of the podium. The size of the crowd was testimony to how eager people were to hear Cooper talk. When Taylor had found out this morning that Cooper was speaking here today she’d driven over as quickly as she could. This was a good opportunity to observe him beyond the confines of his office. Even though she’d spent the past two days cooling her heels, she was still keeping her fingers crossed that he would eventually agree to the interview. She’d googled him, trying to glean as much information as she could. It wasn’t hard to find articles about the divorce of his parents, how his father, Mason, had cheated on Cooper’s mother with his then secretary. Taylor had winced as she’d read the articles. It was such juicy gossip that even the society pages couldn’t resist chronicling the battle between the couple who’d built their publishing business from the ground up, with the husband eventually leaving his wife for a much younger woman.
