Chapter Thirty Eight
“Baby, you need to breathe right now,” Khalid’s deep, rumbling voice came slicing through the phone line, sounding incredibly steady, solid, and commanding even though I was completely sobbing and choking on my own tears. “Slow your breathing down for me, Venessa. I am right here on the line with you. I am not going anywhere. Take a deep breath and tell me exactly what happened up there.”
I tried my absolute best to catch my breath, hiccuping loudly through my heavy tears as I gripped the phone against my ear. “They… they truly think I stole the official state funding documents, Khalid. And they think I am the one who maliciously altered the digital files on the resort network. Kara Steve completely set me up. She pretended to be so nice and remorseful this morning,
