“Still Jobless, Still Figuring It Out,” My Brother Toasted at a Rooftop Party — Minutes Later a Harassment Complaint Hit My Phone, and by Monday He Learned the Company He’d Been Mocking Belonged to Me

I let Bryce continue believing the room belonged to him.

When Miles finally sat across from me in my office and said,

“Something’s off, and I don’t like it,”

I didn’t explain myself, I simply asked him to send everything my way, and when the full picture assembled itself through messages, feedback, and recorded meetings, I understood that protecting my company meant letting my brother face the consequences he had always been spared.

The following Monday, Bryce walked into the conference room smiling, coffee in hand, expecting another easy meeting, and stopped short when he saw HR director Nadia Brooks and legal counsel Renee Fletcher seated beside Miles, their expressions calm in the way professionals learn when emotions are no longer useful.

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