would question it.
In return, I made him attend management training.
He hated it.
“Why do I need a seminar called Psychological Safety?”
“Because you once told a woman with a sick baby she’d lose her shifts.”
He frowned.
“That feels personal.”
“It is.”
He went.
Months later, he told me:
“I learned something annoying.”
“Good.”
“People don’t tell you bad news if they think bad news makes them the problem.”
I looked at him.
“Worth the seminar?”
“No.”
I laughed.
Progress.
Sofia’s cooperative eventually took a small office in one of Duca’s commercial buildings.
Market-rate lease.
She negotiated so aggressively that Alessandro said he lost money.
Anthony reviewed the numbers.
He did not.
Sofia told him disappointment was healthy.
I liked her immediately.
Raymond retired two years later.
The building held a small reception.
Mia, then three, climbed onto his lap and refused to leave.
Raymond cried.
Alessandro pretended
