“I’m doing it because you are the only person alive who actually understands how to run that firm without turning it into a crime syndicate.

When you’re ready to come back to work, the chief executive’s chair is yours.”

Chapter 12 — The Calm Before the Storm

I looked down at little Noah, his tiny hand still wrapped tightly around my finger, and I let myself feel the full weight of what had just happened, and what it meant.

For two years, my family had worked to make me feel small.

They had called me weak, and sensitive, and unfit.