"How... how is this possible?!"
When the spotlight suddenly converged on Cliff standing off to the side, Quinn Sutton froze in place, his entire body rigid as if he'd turned to stone in an instant. Never in his wildest imagination had he considered that Cliff, the man everyone had dismissed as a braggart, was actually Vanguard Pharmaceuticals' chief medical officer.
"Am I... am I seeing things? The person Tristan pointed to is Cliff?" Trish Wainright let out a cry of disbelief as the realization hit her, utterly floored by the sudden reversal. In her mind, Cliff had always been that useless, good-for-nothing live-in son-in-law. And now, just like that, he was some high-and-mighty figure? What kind of dumb luck had this kid stumbled into?!
"Impossible. This is absolutely impossible! Why
