ARRDE
The world was a blur of flashing lights and suffocating whispers.
The second Percy’s words left her mouth, the atmosphere of the business event shifted. The weight of her revelation didn’t just fall on me—it shattered everything in its path. I barely had a second to react before the murmurs turned into a storm of voices, a wildfire spreading across the room.
“Did you hear what she said?”
“Arrde’s father wasn't killed? It was a suicide?”
“And her mother… cheated? With Myron’s father?”
"No wonder she never talks about her family," A business rival from the far end of the ballroom commented. Instigating more curiosity.
I felt my knees weaken, my breathing shallow, but I refused to break here. Not in front of them.
The second I turned, cameras flashed. Reporters who had been ming
