Chapter 9 I withdrew all investment from that Michelin restaurant . The deputy manager and core team resigned en masse to start fresh with me . [] Within six months , my new restaurant had established itself as an industry leader with superior service and cuisine . ] Meanwhile , Dante's place lost its core team and funding , plus the negative publicity from the Zoey incident , and quickly went under . ] I heard Dante tried using the two hundred thousand I gave him for small business ventures , but lost everything . ] He was used to spending money like water and had no idea how to budget and live frugally . [ ] Soon he'd burned through it all and couldn't even pay rent . [ ] Later , I got updates about him through Celeste . [ ] She said that to make ends meet , he was working as a server at a bar , forcing smiles every day while serving drinks and clearing tables for people he used to look down on . [ ] Once , one of his former " friends " recognized him and publicly humiliated him . [ ] Celeste asked if I regretted being so ruthless . [ ] I shook my head . [ ] I never regretted it . [ ] I only regretted not seeing his true nature sooner . ] ] I'd spent over a decade trying to raise a wolf into a sheep . ] Facts proved that you can't change someone's fundamental nature ] Now I had a successful career and friends by my side . ] I no longer needed to live for anyone else or bear responsibilities that weren't mune . ] I was finally living as myself . ] One sunny afternoon . Celeste and I were having tea in my new restaurant's outdoor garden !! A man in a delivery uniform stopped tus electric bike at the restaurant entrance He removed his helmet revealing a haggard , weathered face It was Danite ] He saw ine , his eyes cumples - shame , resentiment but mostly a kind of resigned autobusess Chapter 9 He didn't approach , just looked at me from afar , then hurried into the adjacent building with his delivery bag . I looked away , turned to Celeste , and smiled . [ ] " Celeste , don't you think the weather is beautiful today ? " [ ] She smiled too . " Yes , better than ever . " [ ] We both understood that the dark clouds that had overshadowed my sky for over a decade had finally cleared completely . [ ] The future stretched ahead , bright and clear . [ ] ( 0 )