Semua Bab Aretha Hawthorne: The Rise Of The Phoenix: Bab 101

𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐚“Please don’t ask,” she says. “They are things I can't discuss but I was feeling too excited and ended up blurting that out.”“You blurted out that you’re a complete badass,” I laugh, in complete awe of this woman that has many layers to her. “I want to ask badly 'cause I don’t know what to do to get my mind off it.”“How about you tell me how your meeting with the board went?”“Awful—good—almost bad, I don’t know which to pick,” I sigh. “To be honest, Wallace is a thorn in my flesh, and I’m looking for ways to yank him out, I don’t care how bad I bleed.”“I never liked him.” She walks ahead of me when the elevator opens on the ground floor but waits for me to catch up before continuing. “I hoped his older sister would pick up the mantle when her parents died, but she was grieving and in a very bad place.”“Winifred said she refused the position because she wasn’t ready.”“That’s the official story. The unofficial story is that she started struggling with depression and s