The Flight That Changed Everything..!

I walked back. He looked up and offered a tentative smile. “Hey. Thanks for not making a scene.”

“I wasn’t expecting to see you,” I said.

“Life’s weird like that,” he replied. “Mind if I talk for a minute?”

I leaned on the seat in front of him.

“I wanted to apologize,” he said. “For how things ended.”

I raised an eyebrow.

“I was under pressure—investors, bad decisions. I should’ve been honest, but I wasn’t. I scapegoated you.”

I stayed quiet.

“After you left, things unraveled. More people quit. I tried to hold it together, but I’d already burned too many bridges.”

He looked down. “I sold the company last year for scraps. Lost almost everything—house, marriage, the works.”

I blinked. I hadn’t expected that.

“I’ve had time to reflect,” he said. “When I saw you today, I thought—maybe I get a chance to say sorry. Maybe that’s grace.”

I sat in the empty seat beside him. We talked for an hour.

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