The Years Between Us — Episode 5

After this illness, I know I'm not what I was. You'll need to take responsibility for the family's business. Both of you. My chest tightened, watching him in the lamplight, silver, haired, a little thinner than Grandpa, I'm still at Helios Corp.

Helios Corp was our father's company. Our father had built it from nothing. and for the past five or six years Alex had worked there as a junior sales rep our father's explicit instruction you'll run the company one day you can't run something you don't understand from the ground up so Alex stayed year after year

his performance didn't matter his father never mentioned a promotion Alex why do you still have any illusions about that man if he had plans for you he wouldn't keep you in the same entry-level role for six years my own grandson working as a glorified junior for half a decade does that make any sense to you grandpa if i walk out now won't those years

be wasted i understood both sides our father hadn't moved alex despite having every to do so that said enough about his intentions but alex wasn't wrong either their father was