"Director Ward, please... I was wrong. I was so incredibly wrong."
Lynn Graves practically threw herself toward him, her voice trembling with a frantic, breathless desperation. The regal, iron-willed County Council Chief who had dominated Fairhaven County for years had vanished. In her place was a woman whose political survival was flickering like a candle in a hurricane.
"Please, Ambrose, you have to believe me—this wasn't my intent. I was under immense pressure... entanglements from the Provincial Inspectorate... I had my back against the wall." She stepped closer, her eyes shimmering with forced, heartbreakingly beautiful tears. She reached out, her fingers trembling as she adjusted her collar, intentionally shifting her posture to emphasize the curves she knew he had noticed in the p
