When Keane Industrial eventually restructured, Victor was forced out, Leon resigned quietly, and my father stepped down completely, selling what remained at a fraction of its former value, and while people whispered about karma and irony, I felt no satisfaction in watching it fall, only clarity about what happens when you mistake entitlement for leadership.
Arcway continued to grow.
Three years later, I stood at the opening of a new municipal project my firm had designed from the ground up, efficient, resilient, inclusive, and when a reporter asked how it felt to succeed without the family business behind me, I smiled and said,
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