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2026-09-03 07:09:29
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Engaged to One Whitmore, Fell for the Other. Chapter 62
LaylaMom was awake when I saw her the next morning.Only barely.Her eyes opened when I came closer to the bed, and it took a few seconds before they focused on me. She looked exhausted, her voice rough when she tried to speak.“Hi.”I took her hand carefully. “Hi.”“How long?”“Since the surgery? Not even a full day.”She closed her eyes again, and for a second my heart jumped before her fingers tightened weakly around mine.“Bellamy said everything went well,” I told her. “He’s happy with how you’re doing.”Mom nodded slightly.I stayed beside her while she drifted in and out of sleep. There wasn’t much conversation. She was sore, tired and still being monitored closely, but every time she opened her eyes and recognized me, something inside my chest loosened a little more.Dr. Bellamy came by later and confirmed that her recovery was progressing as expected. There was still a long way to go. They would monitor her closely before deciding when she could leave the hospital, and recov
Engaged to One Whitmore, Fell for the Other. Chapter 61
LaylaBy the time I reached Saint Catherine the next morning, Mom was waiting to be taken for her final scan.I pulled the chair closer to her bed and sat beside her. She looked tired, but better than she had when she was first admitted. The headaches were being controlled more effectively now, although her balance still hadn’t improved much.“How are you feeling?”“Nervous.”Her honesty made my chest tighten. I took her hand. “Bellamy said yesterday everything was still looking the way he expected.”“I know.”She knew all the reassuring things already. So did I. Neither of us needed to repeat them.A nurse came for her a few minutes later. I stayed until they wheeled her from the room, then went downstairs for coffee while I waited.Work had been surprisingly easy to step away from. Peter already knew about the surgery and had told me to take whatever time I needed. My assignments would be covered until I returned.That afternoon, Dr. Bellamy came in after Mom’s final tests were comp
Engaged to One Whitmore, Fell for the Other. Chapter 60
LaylaAdrian was waiting outside Kate’s building when we arrived.He had beaten us there by several minutes, but he hadn’t gone inside. He stood near the entrance with his hands in the pockets of his coat, his expression hard enough that I almost didn’t recognize the warm, easygoing man I’d met at Morrison.“You didn’t go up?” Harvey asked.“I thought I should wait.” Adrian looked at me. “Are you sure you want to do this?”“Yes.”He nodded and turned toward the building.Kate lived high enough that the elevator ride gave me far too much time to think. I still couldn’t reconcile the woman I remembered with the photograph on Harvey’s computer. Kate had been friendly when we met. Even after I learned how she felt about Harvey, she had never treated me badly.The doors opened, and Adrian led us down the hall. Kate answered not long after he knocked, and her expression changed almost immediately when she saw the three of us standing there.“Adrian?”“We need to talk.”Her gaze moved from h
Engaged to One Whitmore, Fell for the Other. Chapter 59
LaylaBy the following afternoon, there wasn’t much left to argue about professionally.Legal had finished its review. Recruitment had documented my hiring from application to offer, Peter had documented why he’d assigned me to Tectrics, and the work I’d done after that spoke for itself. The dates established that Harvey and I hadn’t been together during the overnight trip, and once our relationship began, we’d disclosed it and put the necessary safeguards in place. The board had been given the full chronology.The story looked convincing only when the dates were missing.I was reading the final summary from legal when Harvey appeared beside my desk. “Do you have a minute?”I saved what I was working on and followed him to his office. The door closed behind us.Harvey handed me a printed page. “They found the earliest circulation of the photograph.”I read it. The image had begun moving through a small group of people connected to the Morrison weekend before any of the questions about
Engaged to One Whitmore, Fell for the Other. Chapter 58
LaylaPeter was waiting near my desk when I arrived.“Morning.”“Morning.”He handed me a folder. “Your assignments are back with you. Nothing was reassigned permanently yesterday, so there shouldn’t be much to catch up on.”I took it from him. “Harvey spoke to you?”“Last night. He told me the decision to remove you was his and that you wanted your work restored.”That sounded like Harvey. No attempt to pretend Peter had misunderstood him. No attempt to make yesterday disappear.“Thank you.”Peter nodded. “Legal wants to meet with you at ten. They’re reviewing the material sent to the board.”“Am I being investigated?”“No. The allegations are being reviewed. There’s a difference.”There was, although I wasn’t sure everyone outside this building would care.“I’ll be there.”Peter started away, then stopped. “For what it’s worth, nobody reviewing Tectrics has raised a concern about your work.”That mattered more than reassurance would have. “Thank you.”I sat down and opened the folde
Engaged to One Whitmore, Fell for the Other. Chapter 57
LaylaBy the time I finished telling Marissa what had happened, I was angry all over again.She sat beside me on the sofa, staring at the photograph on my phone. “So someone watched Adrian stop you from falling, took this, and decided to make it look like something else.”“Yes.”“And now people are questioning your job because of it.”“And Harvey decided the best way to protect my job was to take my work away.”Marissa handed my phone back. “I’d be furious.”“I am.”That was the simplest part of it. I understood why Harvey had called legal. I understood why Whitmore Capital needed communications involved once the board and the press were asking questions. What I didn’t understand was why any of that had turned into Harvey deciding what happened to me without speaking to me first.He had taken me off my assignments. Communications had told me not to respond to anyone. Then McKenzie had been sent to tell me it would be better if I went home. Not one of those decisions had been mine.“I
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