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Chapter 28 

Five years later. 

The Veridia Tech Innovation Summit. 

As a lead researcher representing national-level breakthroughs, I was invited to sit on the podium. 

Behind me, the screen scrolled through our progress: 

[Our technology now covered eighty million people, up from twenty milliort, and was integrated into the 

infrastructure of seven states.] 

Delegates from every sector filled the hall. 

Thomas Sterling was there too. He was over eighty, but his energy was even better than it had been five 

years ago. 

He sat in the front row, giving me a thumbs-up. 

Summit Group’s market cap was triple what it had been five years ago. 

I had finally accepted that thirty percent equity stake in Summit Group. 

Not because of the money, but because Pierce was right-it was what I had earned. 

Summit Group and the laboratory had jointly invested in a research endowment named after my parents, funding the education of thirty underprivileged children every year. 

It was Pierce’s idea. 

I agreed. 

Beatrice now lived on the second floor of Emerald Crest Estates. 

She had taken back the jade ring she’d worn for thirty years. 

Not because I rejected it. 

She said, “You have your mother’s ring now. I’ll keep mine, and save it for my granddaughter one day.” 

Her attitude toward me had shifted from polite distance to constant nagging. 

She bugged me to wear warmer clothes in winter, to use an umbrella in the sun, and called at least three 

times a week to ask if I’d eaten. 

It was annoying. 

But it was warm. 

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As we stepped outside, Pierce reached out and took my hand. 

I didn’t pull away. 

The sunlight hit the Kintsugi-restored ring, turning the fractured lines into veins of golden light. 

My mother’s ring. 

My father’s photo. 

After the day they couldn’t come home, I spent twenty years walking my way to this moment. 

“Eleanor, let’s go home.” 

“Yeah. Let’s go home.” 

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