FLASHBACK

Austin’s POV

I was coming out of a well-known fast-food chain in Manila, holding a glass of cold iced tea. I had just finished a meeting with Dad. It was another one of those days where he was training me to enter the world of business—a world that, for him, ran like blood through his veins. I was just a fresh graduate then, but he already included me in every meeting, every negotiation, every signing of papers.

But honestly? Everything was repetitive. It was tiring. It was ...