The company’s internal update sits open on my screen long after I finish reading it. I read the revised acquisition plan again and again, each line confirming what I already know but still struggle to accept.
He changed everything.
He reversed a decision his executive team fully expected him to enforce. Not because of financial gain. Not because of pressure. He changed it because I challenged him. Because I stood in a quiet conference room and told him that human lives mattered.
The realization settles over me slow and warm, like sunlight fighting through ice. A strange mix of triumph and disbelief follows. I should not feel proud. I should not feel anything except relief for the people he spared.
But there is something else too. A confusion that tangles in my chest. A question I canno
