Publicly Mine, Legally Hers
Five years ago, when every option had run out and the company was on the brink of collapse, Paige had disappeared for three days.
When she came back, she was burning with fever, her face pale and exhausted. She simply smiled and said she had gotten lost.
Not long afterward, the investment agreement appeared, and the funding came through.
And Stella, standing beside him at his lowest point, had quietly said, "Don't feel like you owe me anything."
He had taken those words as proof that she was the one who had saved him.
He had never realized that the person who had carried him through those darkest days was Paige, who had mortgaged her future, given up her guaranteed admission, and nearly seve