Chapter 23 - CARMINE STEPS DOWN
I left the family service-trust board at sixty-eight.
Not because scandal.
Enough time.
Independent trustee structure expanded.
Fewer Bellucci seats.
The estate became less dependent on family personalities.
Older cousins said we were giving the house away to professionals.
No.
Ownership remained.
Control became shared.
A distinction our ancestors would have hated.
Leo was nineteen.
He had no seat.
No heir designation.
No “future boss” language.
He studied industrial design.
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Wanted to build furniture.
My grandfather would have considered that suspiciously wholesome.
