Chapter Forty-Six

~ Jameson ~

She’s ecstatic, and somehow… That is priceless to me.

I’ve not put someone else’s happiness or accomplishments before mine, ever. That’s a lesson my parents taught me. My mother was the one who asserted that there’s no pleasing another if you’re not pleased, yourself.

I can stomach that adage.

My father, however, was much more cutthroat, believing you set your sights on your own goals and achieve them, regardless of who or what stands in your way.

I’ve followed both their golden rules over the years, though more acutely leveled up and accepted his concept.

Yet… Every step of the way in creating my own legacy has been about a current and a future vision. I don’t think you can be a singular entity when forming an empire. You need infrastructure, and it’s not just IT-based. It’s not just fundamentally and ideologically shored up by one individual.

You need people surrounding you. Genuine, genius people.

That was where my father fell flat. He kind of didn’t give a shit about t