Fiona
I’d known for a while now that I would not be returning to work at Alexander’s company. But it felt real and final now that I’d told him. Now that I’d officially resigned.
I had to put the baby down again after he left, because I was feeling exceptionally lousy.
I felt like I was in mourning. I was mourning the future I’d imagined for myself at the venture capital firm. I really had loved that job so much, and I’d worked so desperately hard to prove myself there, to establish a reputation and set myself up for a long-term career. And now it was just… all over.
Lexi summoned me back to her with the beginnings of an attention-seeking cry. I said my final piece in my mind—said goodbye to Crescent Ventures and goodbye-for-now to my finance career—and returned to my child.
She p
