He Called Me His Quiet Wife for Six Years and Never Told the Room My Father Founded the Company — He Forgot I Held 41% and Wrote the Bylaws

Not out of goodness — out of a hard, clear unwillingness to let Flynn and Selina turn me into a smaller version of themselves on my way out the door.

The trust I set up was not forgiveness.

I never forgave them, and I never pretended to.

It was a line I drew for my own sake, around the kind of person I was willing to become, with the child standing safely on the far side of it.

Chapter 19 — The Compass

A year on, the shape of things had settled.

Vance Global Medical had repaid, in full, every dollar that had been stolen from it.