Charles looked confused at the question that I asked him. After seeing his expression, I bothered to explain to him the context which was referred to. So, I took a deep breath because it was going to be an explanation I thought would not come out right, and I felt that I would fail to do justice to the clarification.

After much deliberation, I gathered courage to ask the billionaire who I was living with the question that had been on my mind since the very start. The first day at work with him couldn’t make me hold on to that question in my mind any longer. Especially after seeing...