It takes something much rarer to hold someone accountable and human at the same time — to say what you did was wrong, and I understand why you did it, and you will help me repair it, and someday perhaps I will forgive you. Obadiah had weaponized Simone’s love for her father.

Ifeoma, handed the same woman and the same leverage, chose instead to recognize it.

That was the whole difference between them, laid bare in a single gesture with a resignation letter, and it was why the company deserved to stay in Ifeoma’s hands and not Obadiah’s.

Meanwhile the scandal bled into Winnie’s school.

A sixth-grader showed her an article on his phone at recess — your dad gets paid to be a fake boyfriend for a rich lady — and Winnie punched him square in the nose.

The principal called.