Thirty-four:
I protected the company.
Thirty-five:
I changed my estate plan.
Thirty-six:
I let employees own what they helped build.
Thirty-seven:
I started saying no without explaining myself.
Thirty-eight:
I sat across from my son and refused to rescue him.
Thirty-nine:
I let him change without pretending change erased the past.
Forty:
I opened my front door because I wanted to.
That's the part I wish more people understood.
Consequences are not always revenge.
Sometimes the consequence of hurting someone is simply that they stop arranging their life around you.
Trevor lost the mansion.
Lost access to Cedarline.
Lost his marriage.
Lost years with me.
Some of those losses came from crimes.
Some from choices.
And some were simply boundaries finally arriving late.
As for me—
I did not lose everything.
I lost illusions.
Different thing.
The company survived.
Most of the money returned.
The property fraud failed.
My employees gained ownership.
