Heartless Boss Denied My Leave— That Night I Took Everything Back.

Three hours before the biggest acquisition in our company's history, I got the call that my father was in emergency surgery. I asked for exactly seventy-two hours of leave. My boss looked right through me. "Every family has issues. But this contract waits for no one." What he did not know was that the core asset they were selling never truly belonged to them. That night, I stopped crying and decided to take everything back.