PART 1: The question was spoken softly, almost as if the child feared that even curiosity might disturb the room, yet it carried a weight heavy enough to make the air inside the study feel unbearable.
“Dad, when people say the sky is bright, what does that really mean?”
The man standing near the window did not answer at once. Matthew Halbrook, one of the most influential financiers in the United States, a man whose signature could move markets and ruin competitors overnight, found himself paralyzed by a sentence no boardroom had ever prepared him for. His son, Lucas Halbrook, was ten years old and had never seen a single shade of light.
