The distinction may sound like pride.

It was closer to survival.

It was the difference between being rescued and rescuing myself, and after six years of disappearing, I needed, more than I needed his ruin, to be the one who finally stood up.

Chapter 9 — Mr. Howard

Two hours later I walked through the tall glass doors of Crestview Tower in downtown Minneapolis, and my father was waiting for me in the executive boardroom.

His name is Howard Vance.