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Author: Ashley Wright
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Chapter 78 – The Boardroom Trap

By the time I reached the twenty-ninth floor, I knew something was wrong. The whole building had that tense, hushed silence that meant gossip was everywhere but nobody dared speak it out loud. Phones were glued to palms, eyes darting to screens, whispers cut off the moment footsteps echoed down the corridor.

And all those footsteps led to one place: the boardroom.

James found me first. He grabbed my elbow so suddenly I almost dropped my bag. “You shouldn’t be here.” His voice was low, eyes jittering toward the glass doors at the end of the hall.

“Why? What’s going on?”

He hesitated, like saying it out loud made it worse. Then he leaned in. “The video. The one of you and Desmond. It’s everywhere.”

The floor tilted beneath me. “What video?”

James rubbed the back of his neck. “The one from the office security feed. Him kissing you in his office. Someone leaked it. It’s trending already. You’re on the front page of at least two gossip sites, Monique. The bo
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