Sophia
I spent that entire night at my laptop instead of sleeping, Mark beside me reviewing donor lists while I drafted and redrafted an idea that had started forming the moment I left his office that afternoon.
"We tell the real story," I said, turning my screen toward him. "Not the gossip version. The actual one. The wing, what it's already done for kids in three months, what the expansion phase would do for even more of them. We let the work speak, exactly like you told Ashcroft it should, except we make sure it's actually heard instead of drowned out by whatever narrative he's spreading among his donor friends."
"How?"
"Priya, from Architectural Digest. She said this was one of the most compelling projects she'd covered in a while. I think there's a follow-up story here, one that i
