
“Please don’t take my dog. He’s all I have.”
“I’m not here to take him.”
That Christmas Eve, a single dad CEO found a little girl and her dog sleeping on trash. The truth behind it shattered him.
Snow was coming down hard over New York, wrapping the cold, merciless streets in a blanket of white. But behind a high-end restaurant, in a narrow alley piled with ripped boxes and torn garbage bags, a little girl was sleeping on the frozen ground, curled up around a shivering brown dog.
Her tiny arms clutched him as if he were the only warmth left in her world.
And that’s exactly how Daniel Carter, a billionaire CEO with a reputation for firing people without a second thought, saw her.
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