Chapter 9 - THE FOUNDATIONArthur approached Claire with an idea.
A worker safety foundation.
Funded by recovered Bellini assets.
Named after Daniel.
Claire immediately objected.
"You cannot build something with my husband's name without asking."
Arthur nodded.
"I'm asking."
She read the proposal carefully.
Legal assistance for workers.
Emergency financial support for families.
Independent oversight.
Workers on the board.
No Moretti publicity.
Claire negotiated every condition.
Then she signed.
The Daniel Bennett Worker Safety Fund opened six months later.
Its first case involved a pregnant widow whose husband had been injured after reporting unsafe electrical wiring.
Claire looked at the frightened woman.
"What do you want?"
The woman stared suspiciously.
Claire remembered Arthur asking her the same question years earlier.
She smiled.
"Nothing."
"Sometimes a door is just open."
For the first time, Claire understood that the night she had opened her apartment door hadn't simply saved two strangers.
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It had created a chain reaction.
Kindness had moved from one person to another.
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