For Nine Years He Mistook My Silence for Surrender; What He Never Understood Was That Every Dinner I Didn’t Fight About Was a Day I Stayed Close Enough to Gather What I Needed to End Him

It was the fight.

He simply couldn’t hear it.

Chapter 16 — Take Back Everything

Six months later, the morning sun poured through the tall windows of my office at the Halstead House headquarters, and the company was, by every measure, healthier than it had been in years.

The transition had not been easy, but it had been clean.

With Roman and Sabrina facing state charges, the board had voted, without a single objection, to make me executive chair and chief executive.

I restructured the procurement contracts that had hidden the theft.