DANIEL POV

I stare at my calendar. Back-to-back meetings from 7AM to 9PM. Same schedule I've kept for years. The screen glows blue in the dim office light, each appointment a barrier between me and the life I've been neglecting.

Not today.

I start deleting. Conference calls. Board meetings. Investor lunches. Nathan can handle most of it. The rest can wait. My finger hovers over each entry for only a second before I press delete. Years of conditioning scream at me to stop, but I ignore it.

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