In the spring after Robert died, Damien changed the way he worked.
Not dramatically. Not a resignation or a restructuring. A shift in emphasis, the kind that happens when a significant event recalibrates what matters.
He brought Callum into Hargrove Industries in a consulting capacity, the architectural and spatial thinking applied to the company’s physical development, its buildings and its presence. It was a formal thing with a formal structure, but its real nature was something simpler: the two brothers working in the same place with the different languages they each had and finding the translation.
He took Fridays away from the corporate tower.
He spent them at the estate, in the library or the garden, with the children in the afternoons when they came home from school.
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