The Final Party
Nathan was the golden boy everyone liked back in high school, while I was the girl who always struggled with her grades.
He never made me feel stupid. He always sat beside me, patiently explaining problems repeatedly, his voice gentle, never changing.
In college, we ended up on opposite coasts. He would fly several hours from Silicon Valley to New York every week—just to have dinner with me. He kept doing that for three whole years.
Until I started dating Edward.
After that, Nathan quietly disappeared from my life.
The next day, I stood in the Waldorf Astoria ballroom in New York at the annual Capital Anchor Summit—one of the most elite finance events in the world.