The employee healthcare benefits that had been quietly cut to pad the executive bonuses were fully restored.

And several long-serving employees who had been pushed out over the years for raising exactly the red flags Adele had stayed silent about were found, and contacted, and offered their jobs back.

Adele kept her twelve percent, and accepted the chair of the company’s newly formed Ethics and Compliance Committee.

She did not take it for revenge.

She took it because she had finally, completely understood why her grandmother had left her that stake in the first place — not as an inheritance to enjoy, but as a responsibility to carry.

Georgiana had not given her a piece of a company.