Ivy's messages had succeeded in keeping both Richard and Adrian awake that night.
Richard sat awake in his study, unable to go to bed, and unable to pry his thoughts of Ivy's threat from his mind. He stared at his phone with anger, helplessness and dread.
Between the blurred photo leak of his affair with Morgana circulating on private forums and Ivy's text warning him to keep her past off Dreamscape's promotional campaign, he had finally yielded. He'd come to realize that his strong will was nothing compared to Ivy's stubbornness and determination.
Knowing that one wrong move would trigger a full-scale public execution of his reputation, he had to cave completely. By midnight, he emailed his PR director curtly:
'Pull every piece of Ivy's recital footage immediately and rewrit
