Chapter 11

"Elias Grant is a washout with PTSD who cleans toilets! Find someone else!"Something cold and sharp crystallized in Vivian's chest. "He's a decorated veteran who saved your daughter's biggest deal of the year by flying her to Boston when every other pilot was unavailable. And I won't hear him disrespected in my office.""Your office?" Charles's laugh was cruel. "This was Alexander's office. You're just keeping it warm until the board realizes you're not cut out for this."The words hit exactly where he'd intended, but Vivian didn't flinch. "Get out.""I'm warning you, Vivian. You risk this company's reputation for some broken pilot, and I'll make sure the board removes you, family or not."After he left, Vivian stood at her window for a long time, looking down at the hangars where Elias was probably working, unaware of the corporate warfare happening sixty floors above. Her father had thrown down a gauntlet: choose the company's image, or choose the people who made it real. For the first time in three years, the choice felt easy.She found Elias that night in his usual spot, this time working on hydraulic systems. Lily was there again, her presence now familiar and somehow comforting.The little girl waved enthusiastically. "Miss Vivian, look what Daddy taught me!" She held up a small wooden model of a plane, clearly handmade with moving parts."That's beautiful," Vivian said, genuinely impressed."Daddy says if you want to fly planes, first you have to understand them," Lily explained seriously. "So we're learning together."Vivian looked at Elias, who was watching his daughter with such pure love that it made everything else seem insignificant. Here was a man who'd lost everything, but was still teaching his daughter to reach for the sky. How could anyone call that broken?"Can I talk to you?" she asked.They walked to a quiet corner of the hangar while Lily continued working on her model. Vivian explained the confrontation with her father, the board's concerns, the pressure to distance herself from him.

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