\u201c\u2026not your setting.\u201d<\/p>\n
I let it sit before answering. \u201cYes,\u201d I said calmly. \u201cThere is.\u201d<\/p>\n
James didn\u2019t hesitate. \u201cI\u2019ll handle it immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n
I finished my coffee by the lake, as if nothing had changed\u2014though everything had. My family had simply confirmed how they still saw me.<\/p>\n
Back at the resort, the lobby was tense. My father was demanding my reservation be cancelled.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t cancel that reservation,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Then a man in a suit arrived. \u201cI\u2019m James Hendricks, Director of Operations.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the reservation was under owner review and couldn\u2019t be changed without approval.<\/p>\n
My father demanded to speak to the owner.<\/p>\n
James turned to me. \u201cMiss Patterson\u2026 is that necessary?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence fell.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said this wasn\u2019t my setting,\u201d I told my father.<\/p>\n
Then James revealed the truth: I held controlling interest in the resort group.<\/p>\n
I kept my reservation\u2014and theirs.<\/p>\n
And for once, they had nothing left to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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