My mind is a mess.

I am filled with the rapid thoughts of everything I must do in the coming weeks.

I have no peace as I am being pulled in a thousand different directions.

If you could see me now, then you would seem the face of calm but the insides are a jumbling, screaming mess of emotions and confusion.

I sit here now, in a black leather chair in my office in Calgary.

I am the founder of Tannon Inc., but this paper�this one contract in front of me will end that.

If you could see me now, then you would see a man dressed immaculately in a gray Armani suit and black dress shoes�polished to a mirror shine.

You would see me as the rest of the world has seen me.

Slash Tannon�corporate pirate, corporate CEO, corporate businessman

Corporate

Whatever happened to Slash Tannon�wrestler?

That is what I came here to do

Wrestle

Not run a company, not raid the businesses of men twice my age

Why am I worrying about stock quotes and quarterly updates and memos?

This is not what I saw my life fall to

My mind is a mess with the thoughts and details of everything I must worry about

It is too much, even for a man of my abilities.

Something must give, something must end�something must be deleted from my life

The only question is�what?

What could I afford to lose?

My life is focused around three things�my business, Tannon Inc., my girlfriend, Erin Styles and my career in the wrestling ring.

My business has become a part of me over the past months�it is something now expected of me.

No longer is it just a sideline thing, no, it has become the main aspect of my week.

Is this how I wanted to spend my days?

To dress in business suits and spend 12 hours a day in meetings about things that I would not have given a damn about two years ago.

I wanted to reach my absolute peak�in the ring, not in the corporate world.

I have become so rich from this business that it is not even funny.

I have the fast cars, I had the hot women, which has now been replaced by a goddess that I may not even be worthy of being with.

I have homes across the world, currently 17 in all, not counting offices and summer and winter vacation homes.

I have everything I ever wanted�but I don�t owe it to wrestling so much as I owe it to the business world.

Perhaps it is time that I hang up my boots and put on the suit permanently?

Erin Styles�

5�3�

Blonde

Gorgeous

She is my girlfriend

Her body is next to mine in bed every night

She loves me

Do I deserve her love?

I don�t even know how it happened.

One second I was making my way into an arena, nothing on my mind except my match.

The next I was walking away with the knowledge that I had just met a woman so amazing that I had to�had to have her for myself.

It was electric when we first kissed�

It still is.

I would do anything for Erin Styles.

I like her�no�

I think I love her.

But is it enough to keep me in Sin?

Sin Wrestling�

Wrestling�

It has been my love and my life for over 4 years.

I walk into that ring and I am home.

I know exactly what I have to do at every moment from the time the bell rings until the time the bell rings.

If there was ever a �zone� moment in my life than that is it. I can just go in and know that I am going to walk out the winner. I can look across the ring and see my opponents and I know their weaknesses, the ways in which I can break them, the ways in which I can end their dreams and crush their realities.

To make them submit�there is something so satisfying about that.

Flame

This guy is gonna lose the match to me.

He stuck his nose where it didn't belong.

And now he will pay the price.

Perhaps at one point in that pitiful career of yours you were actually somebody to be revered and honored�but all you are worthy of now is being an object of my amusement.

You are a peasant and a fool Flame.

I have had a lifetime�s worth of success in only three and a half years in this business and no worn down punk like you is about to steal that spotlight from me.

The wrestling business owes me nothing, I owe the wrestling business everything.

That is why I refuse to walk away, that is why I refuse to retire�that is why I shall give sacrifice to the wrestling gods.

With the blood of you Flame�your blood�your sweat�your tears. Every desire that you still hold shall be destroyed at my hand.

Go sign your soul over to whatever magic or god that you pray to, because this Sunday I shall break what is left.

Hmmm

So�of my three loves, I cannot give up Erin and I cannot give up wrestling.

I sit here now at my desk in my Calgary Offices with a single paper in front of me.

It has three lines that are of importance, everything else�simply words.

Contract of Consent to the Sale of Slash Tannon Incorporated

Buyer: x Aiden de Sarrett x

Seller: x _____________ x

It�s been part of my life for the better part but no longer can I work with this.

I am a wrestler�always have been�always will be. My friend John Rockwell, of my Woldpack Wrestling days called me a week back. He knew of my plans to sell my company and directed me to a friend of his, a businessman named Aiden de Sarrett. The man matched the very lucrative price that I asked for my company and also agreed to the amount of earnings in the company that I asked for.

An astronomical amount for the company itself of which 75% will go to me and 25% to the workers who will be let go as a result of the merger

And a second personalized payment to me

$500,000 paid out in four lump checks four times a year for thirty years

I have so much money now that that could easily suffice. All I want now is to be away from the business.

Slowly, I sign the paper and as I reach out and shake de Sarrett�s hand I look at it slowly�the ink drying as I stare.

Seller: x Slash Tannon x

It�s done.

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