Nadia POV
"I called someone," Cole said finally. "A media contact. I asked him to get Ryder's post pulled."
I had been pacing a tight circle near my window. I stopped.
"You called someone."
"Richard Hale. He handles PR relationships for the franchise. He made a call to Ryder's publicist and reminded them what a second media incident in two seasons would cost their client."
"And that worked."
"Yes."
I pressed two fingers to my forehead. "When did you do this?"
"Last night. About twenty minutes after I dropped you off."
"So while I was sitting in my apartment thinking it just... disappeared on its own—"
"You weren't wrong to think that," he said, and his voice was careful in a way that made me angrier than if he'd just been defensive. "I didn't want you to spend the night trying to
