Regina’s POVI didn’t wait.Not for applause. Not for polite smiles. Not for the next team to be announced.The moment my slides flicked off the screen and the moderator’s voice moved on, I walked. My heels clicked against the courtyard stones, too loud, too sharp.Whispers followed me, rising, hissing, overlapping like a wave that threatened to crash over me.I didn’t dare look back.The sound of laughter, stifled, but unmistakable, shot through me, hurting my insides.Some people were shocked, some curious, but others… others thought it was funny. My humiliation, my past, a joke for them to carry out of here and murmur about over cocktails.I could feel their eyes sticking to me like glue.Lindsay appeared at my elbow, a hand firm at my back, guiding me through the crowd. She didn’t say much. Her silence was the one mercy I had left.“Come on,” she murmured, pushing the glass doors open.Outside, our driver was already waiting, the car idling at the curb.“You go back to the office,
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