Alex also learned the importance of being on time.
One afternoon, he was halfway through a multi-million-dollar acquisition meeting with international investors. In his old life, work would have taken absolute priority. This time, he rose in the middle of a sentence, apologized to the board, and walked out because he had promised to attend his five-year-old’s preschool holiday play.
He didn’t make some dramatic announcement about sacrifice. He simply arrived, took a seat in the very back row, and clapped loudly.
Leo spotted him from the stage.
That was enough.
Months later, Elena agreed that Alex could pick the children up on certain Saturdays. For the first visit, Alex created an extremely detailed color-coded schedule, packed four backpacks, prepared four labeled water bottles, and printed an itinerary.
Elena glanced at the document and nearly laughed. “You’re still making spreadsheets for everything.”
Alex crushed the paper into a ball and threw it into the trash. “I can improvise.”
