Juliet pulled her cardigan tighter against the spring chill and looked out over the water.

“What will you do now, Bennett?” she asked softly.

“The organization is gone.

The company runs itself, with the board.

You don’t have an empire to rule anymore.

You spent your whole life being one thing, and now you’re not it.

What happens to a man like that?”

I reached into my coat and took out the one thing I had kept from my father’s study — his old silver pocket watch — and ran my thumb across the worn casing.