《My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father》全部章節：第 131 章 - 第 133 章

Catherine had been the foundation's executive director for three years when she presented the annual report at the board meeting in January, and Chloe sat at the table and listened to her speak about the organisation with the authority of someone who owned its direction, and felt something that was entirely positive and required a moment to identify.She was no longer the most important person in the room.Not marginalised, not replaced, but correctly positioned: a founder and board member who provided strategic direction and whose vision had shaped everything, but who was not the operational centre. Catherine was the operational centre. She knew the programme details, the beneficiary numbers, the staff challenges, the partnership negotiations, all the daily substance of a growing organisation, with a fluency that came from full immersion.Chloe knew the big picture and trusted Catherine with the rest.This had taken longer to genuinely feel right than she had expected. The intellectu

The Fashion Industry Hall of Fame had inducted one hundred and twelve people in its forty-year history.Chloe and Lucien would be the first married couple inducted in the same year. The committee had noted this in their letter with the particular tone of institutions acknowledging a historical first while being careful not to make the historical firstness the primary point, subordinating it correctly to the achievements that had produced it.Lucien had read the letter, set it down, and said: "They're going to make the married couple thing the story.""Some of it," Chloe agreed."The work should be the story.""The work will be most of the story. The married couple thing will be the headline." She looked at him. "We can't control the headline. We can control what we say."He nodded, accepting this with the pragmatism he had developed over years of being a public figure in an industry that had its own relationship with narrative.The ceremony was in New York in June, held in the same in