Four years later.ZariaSome days, I wish I could just take a pause from this life thing. I wake up before dawn, get to the office before everyone, run through reports, check and correct figures, respond to my father’s emails and more. Yet, at the end of the day, I’m still the one he looks at like a disappointment.Three years working for Buckley Holdings, and David Buckley still acts like I’m an intern someone forced him to take.“Next time, try not to look lost when the board asks you questions,” he told me this morning, in front of half of the senior management. “If you’re going to handle the financials, at least sound like you know what you’re doing.”Never mind that I was the one who caught the three-million-dollar discrepancy in the projections. That I’ve been the one staying late for the past two weeks, fixing mistakes other people made. My father doesn’t see that. He only sees the one moment I pause before answering because I want to be sure.Samantha, on the other hand, can s
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