The months that followed were quieter than I had expected.
Not quiet in the sense of nothing happening. Everything kept happening. The press ran their story and it was bad for about two weeks, then a much larger business scandal somewhere else in the city swallowed the news cycle and we were mostly left alone. Kade's PR team handled the remainder with a brief, dignified statement confirming that Mia Perez was a shareholder in Carter Group and a private individual, and that was that.
Clover and Serena went through their legal processes. The corporate sabotage charges were serious. Serena had expensive lawyers but the paper trail was airtight. Clover, facing the reality of it, chose to cooperate with the investigation in exchange for a reduced sentence. She called me once more before the h
