I had argued with my family and moved out.

And then I had used my own network, behind the scenes, to hand Spencer the contacts and the institutional backing and the opportunities no executive his age could have reached alone.

He always said he had built it all himself.

I never corrected him.

Standing in my mother’s arms in that foyer, I understood at last what my father had seen from the beginning.

It was never really about where Spencer came from.