Chapter 6: I Won
(Author's POV)
No one in the Everett family iMessage group noticed Aurora had quietly left.
Not that anyone would have. Victoria used the group maybe twice a week to share videos of Rosalind at her riding lessons or ballet recitals. Everyone else treated it like background noise.
Jasper hadn't noticed anything at all.
The previous afternoon, buried under a backlog of digital files, he had batch-signed a stack of documents through DocuSign on his iPad. The label on the folder had read *Routine Personnel Changes*. He had clicked through them without reading a single one.
The next morning, he walked into the executive floor and stopped at the sight of the empty EA workstation. The little vase that always held fresh flowers was gone too. The desk was completely bar
