An initiating event is a literary term which refers to the first stimuli in a novel or story that triggers the conflict in the plot of a story line
"Enough" has those letters
The second choice--this sentence has a subject connected by or, so the verb agrees with whatever subject that's closest to it. "the owner" is singular and "the business managers" is plural, so the verb attaches to "managers."
The quote probably means that the boy was always so happy, but a girl stole his happiness from him, and maybe he didn’t want to take her happiness because she needed it more