PART 1: The morning I dismissed her from my home, I was completely convinced that I was acting with logic, discipline, and fairness, the same principles that had carried me from a cramped studio apartment to a multimillion dollar real estate portfolio across the California coast. My name is Aaron Feldman, and for most of my adult life I believed that success required distance from sentiment. Control was safety. Suspicion was intelligence. Trust, especially toward people who worked for me, was a weakness I could not afford.
