I bought an office overlooking the river.
No chandeliers.
No champagne towers.
Just good people doing work that mattered.
One afternoon, Richard visited for a quarterly meeting.
Before leaving, he paused beside my desk.
“You know, when I said I’d been searching for you for fourteen months, I thought I was looking for someone I needed to reward.”
I smiled.
“And?”
“I was actually looking for someone I needed to hire.”
I laughed.
That evening, my mother sent me a photograph.
Olivia was at another family dinner, quieter than usual.
