Bree McKinley Hudson had spent the last fifteen years in an abusive, physically and emotionally, marriage.paragraph text here.

She married her high school sweetheart, Cedric Hudson, two months after their high school graduation. Yes, July 21, 1999, would be a date Bree will never forget.

Bree and Cedric were voted ‘Couple Most Likely to Succeed’… well, after they finished college, financially they were a force to be reckoned with.

After they had married, they both supported each other through college. It was a struggle with both of them working, college, studying and maintaining a relationship, but they managed. They both took classes’ year around to hurry along their degrees. It worked, and both of them graduated at the top of their class.

Cedric received his Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering. He always found it fascinating and wanted to be one of those people that design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas from deposits below the earth’s surface. Petroleum engineers also find new ways to extract oil and gas from older wells, which Cedric found intriguing. He wanted to go down in history for making something new to help the older wells function much more efficiently. Basically, Cedric wanted to be famous.

Bree became a corporate lawyer. The practice of corporate law was less adversarial than that of trial law. Bree found the world of corporate law intriguing. She desired to follow her father’s example. Actually, Bree was seeking approval from her parents and thought joining his company would help. Growing up with a nanny she never felt close to her mother and father. But Bree found her father’s work interesting. Yes, the world of mergers and acquisitions was where she wanted to be. However, the harassment suits and liability claims could really get nasty, and she couldn’t wait to sink her teeth into that world. Being a perfectionist, she mastered it and was in high demand in many...Read More