A little girl in a billionaire’s office innocently asks him to be her dad—unaware her words are about to uncover a truth that changes everything

— as if everyone needed a moment to confirm what they had just witnessed.

Then Janet exhaled, very slowly, and said: “Well.”

Lea tugged my hand. “I like him,” she announced.

“I know,” I said.

And somewhere on the way to my desk, I realized my face was still warm — but for a different reason now.