All Chapters of Once His Wallflower, Now His Biggest Mistake : Chapter 11

Chapter 11Caleb’s POVThe silence in my office used to feel like power. Now, it felt like the air was being sucked out of the room by a vacuum.I stood by the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Knight Group’s headquarters, looking out at the city that was supposed to be mine. For the first time in my life, I felt the height of the building not as an achievement, but as a precipice.My phone had been ringing for three hours. I hadn't answered it. I couldn't. Every call was a new leak, a new disaster, a new drop in a bucket that had suddenly developed a thousand holes."Sir?"I didn't turn around. I knew it was Gideon, my head of security and de facto assistant since my actual secretary had resigned two hours ago via a three-sentence email."Give it to me," I rasped."The Chief Technical Officer just walked," Miller said, his voice flat. "He’s taking the entire architecture team with him. They’ve signed non-compete waivers, but they don't care. They claim the company’s ‘ethical standing’