Billionaire's Biggest Regret
Hands wrapped around a coffee cup the exact way Naomi's had been, the exact way Marcus's always were, like every person who'd ever sat across from one of us in a diner booth needed something to hold onto before they said the thing that scared them.
"Twenty-two years ago," she said, "before I was born, my father was involved with a woman named Renata Cole. Not romantically — financially. She ran a small investment fund, and my father convinced several of his associates to move money through it. When the fund collapsed, it turned out Renata had been the one taking the fall for decisions my father made and denied ever making." She looked up at us. "Renata went to prison. My father never spent a