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Chapter 19

Ten years after that night, Mr. Lawson invited me to speak at a leadership event in the same hotel restaurant.

I almost said no.

Then I said yes.

The room looked different.

Or maybe I did.

Table twelve was still near the window.

I stood beside it before the event started.

I remembered the proposal hitting the floor.

Daniel’s hand around my wrist.

The ring on the table.

My own voice saying, “I want a divorce.”

Mr. Lawson walked up quietly.

“Are you all right?”

I smiled.

“Yes.”

“Good.”

He looked at the table too.

“For what it’s worth, that was the strangest partnership meeting of my career.”

I laughed.

“Mine too.”

Then he said, “Also one of the most important.”

He was right.

May you like

Not because of Daniel.

Because of what I chose after him.

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