LOGINFor a moment nobody else moved. "Ms. Valentine." She opened her portfolio. "I want to raise something separate from what Franklin raised." She looked at me directly. "Vivienne Valentine holds a position in this company. Small but real. And she posted Lucy Harrington's bail three days after the arre
Alicia's POV The boardroom was full when I walked in. No one was speaking. Everyone in the room had watched the same thing. They were waiting to see what I would do about it. I set my folder on the table and sat down. Palms on the table, back straight. I had been doing this since four in the m
"Then I hold the line." "You hold it without flinching," Cole said. "Because the moment you reach for explanation she has you." We worked through it. The living room. The phone. The photographs loading in sequence. The message thread. The location pin. Each one, placed exactly in the timeline, not
Edward's POV Cole arrived at seven. Not eight, the time we had agreed on. Seven told me everything about what Thursday had opened up. Maria let him in. I was already at the table, the folder Philip had sent open in front of me, the coffee beside it untouched. I’d been at both since five and made
Alicia's POV The lock clicked. I was inside. Elena had seen it. I could tell the moment she looked up. Not at my face. At everything the day had left on me. She unfolded from the couch and went to the kitchen. I heard the soft hiss of the bottle opening, the glug of whiskey into two glasses. I did
Edward's POV Alicia's car pulled into traffic and disappeared at the end of the block. Philip stood beside me. The courthouse doors kept opening behind us. Voices. Footsteps. A camera shutter from across the street that hadn't been there this morning. "They didn't expect the footage," Philip sa







