Nearly 200 Wealthy Guests Laughed at a Little Girl Covered in Orange Juice—Until She Looked Up the Grand Staircase and Screamed, “Daddy!”
/
Chapter 8 / 15
Chapter 8 - GIDEON’S FATHER APOLOGIZED WITHOUT ASKING FOR FORGIVENESSMartin asked to see Sage.
Gideon said no.
Not yet.
He did agree to meet him alone.
Martin said:
“I took seven years from you.”
“Yes.”
“And from her.”
“Yes.”
“And from Leah.”
“Yes.”
No softening.
Then Martin said:
“I thought a merger mattered because thousands of employees depended on it.”
Gideon looked at him.
“That explains the first week.”
Martin closed his eyes.
“Not seven years.”
Exactly.
The merger closed.
Then another quarter.
Another crisis.
Another excuse.
Eventually the lie became harder to confess than maintain.
Martin had protected his image too.
He didn’t want Gideon to know his father had threatened a pregnant woman.
May you like
So he kept waiting.
Silence compounds interest too.
