The drawer stayed closed for four more days.
Not from doubt. From discipline. The same discipline that had kept me standing at a restaurant shift when my feet hurt and my back ached and the baby inside me was running out of room. The same discipline that had kept me at the kitchen table at two in the morning when Noah was asleep and the numbers needed to make sense before morning. I had learned, the hard way and the only way anything is truly learned, that the difference between a plan and a wish was the willingness to wait until every condition was correct before you moved.
I waited until every condition was correct.
The first purchase went through Meridian Capital on a Tuesday morning in the thin window that followed Sinclair Group’s quarterly results. The price had dipped as I had st
