They didn’t know I was standing around the corner.
Not yet.
They didn’t hear the soft fall of my heels behind the marble pillar or see the way my fingers curled tighter around the folder I was holding, breath catching in my throat as I realized this wasn’t just gossip it was a strategy meeting, disguised as conversation, dipped in venom and glossed with a laugh.
“I confirmed it this morning,” Valerie said, her voice low but unbothered, like she was talking about the weather and not the life inside me. “She’s pregnant.”
I froze.
Not out of fear but because something about the way she said it made me feel like the news had become ammunition.
Camilla’s reply came too quickly, too rehearsed.
“That’s why Edward took her back,” she said, scoffing. “She’s not strong enough to keep him othe
