PHOENIX IN PRADA
— NATHALIE —
Victoria Ashford signed the acquisition papers on a Wednesday at two in the afternoon.
The meeting was held at a neutral venue — a conference room in the kind of hotel that understood discretion and charged appropriately for it. Daniel was there with the Harrison legal team. Emma was there because Phoenix and Prada was her company too and she had earned her seat at that table. Victoria arrived with two lawyers and the particular stillness of a woman who had already done her grieving and arrived at the other side of it.
She looked, if I was being honest, tired. Not defeated. Tired the way people looked when they had been carrying something very heavy for a very long time and had finally been allowed to set it down.
The signing took eleven minutes. Lawyers
