The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back
She hadn't opened it in nine days.
Nine days was not an accident. Nine days was Dante in a hospital bed, and R needing more bedtime stories than usual, and the Hawkins family showing up at Larsen Enterprises uninvited, and a conference room with Aspen's voice in it sharpening every word into something designed to cut, and a job that required her full attention even on the days when her chest felt like it was being slowly compressed by everything she wasn't saying out loud to anyone. Whisper119 had been, for nine days, a name she'd put down and hadn't picked back up, because there were only so many fires a person could carry at once before something got dropped, and she'd made a choice, mostl