Adrian Without the Mansion
Chapter 18 - Adrian Without the Mansion
Adrian resigned as chairman of Blackwood Holdings.
An independent board replaced him.
Some investors called his decision weak.
He accepted a smaller role overseeing corporate transparency under employee review.
For the first time, staff could question him without fearing dismissal.
He sold the private jet and used part of the money to fund legal claims for people harmed by Charles’s clinics.
Adrian moved into an apartment downtown.
Emma visited and laughed at his inability to operate the building’s laundry machines.
“You owned hotels.”
“I never washed the sheets.”
“That was the problem.”
He learned.
Their relationship developed without a title that forced closeness.
Emma called him Uncle Adrian when she felt like it.
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Sometimes she called him Adrian.
He answered to both.
