and Sophie’s request to move to Montana.
But Lucas remembered it differently.
He remembered the moment a woman with shaking hands refused to let humiliation silence her.
He remembered the folder she carried into the boardroom and the truth that cost him a friend, millions of dollars, and the comforting illusion that fear was the same as respect.
The message had not changed his life because Sophie called him arrogant.
It changed his life because, when he finally listened, he discovered she was right.
