Reid The video was impossible to avoid. It was everywhere — my feed, the headlines, even the business sites that had no reason to care about influencer content. My phone hadn’t stopped buzzing since it went live — a constant stream of texts, emails, and calls. Half of them were about the merger I’d been working on for months. The other half? All about Fallon. All about us. The so-called love story we’d apparently perfected. And I hadn’t watched it. Not all of it, anyway. But the few seconds I did see played on a loop in my mind — her laugh, soft and real. The way she leaned into me without hesitation. The warmth in her eyes when she wasn’t guarded, when she wasn’t bracing for a fight. It looked real. Too real. Which was exactly why I needed to stay far away from it. “Any comment

