Becky
The story broke before any of us had the chance to have that conversation Ryder had promised, which felt, by now, like the exact kind of timing Damien specialized in even from wherever he'd retreated to since his termination.
*Blackwood's Mystery Woman Involved with Board Member, Sources Claim*, the headline read, accompanied by a photo of me standing outside the hospital talking to a man I recognized vaguely as one of Blackwood Dynamics' junior board members, someone I'd exchanged perhaps three sentences with during a company event Adrian had insisted I attend weeks earlier.
The article implied, with just enough careful ambiguity to avoid outright libel, that I'd been conducting some kind of secret relationship with the board member, painting me once again as calculating and oppo
