RIVAL FOUNDATIONS
"I think that's precisely the kind of detail that matters most, in the end. Not the grand gestures. The small, true ones."
The conversation turned, eventually, to Richard, a topic Vivian raised herself, unprompted, with the particular steadiness of a woman who had made her own peace with a complicated history years earlier.
"I heard about the proxy fight," she said. "Halloran's defeat. I imagine that closes a chapter, in its own way, even though Richard wasn't directly involved this time."
"Damian thinks it's over," Sienna said. "The company politics, at least. I don't know if it's ever fully over, with a man like that in the background."