Chapter 17
I saw it before I finished my first coffee.
A media notification on my second phone, I had configured it to notify me instantly of anything connected to Tao Industries.
This morning it found something at 6:52 a.m.
The Tao Marriage: Sources Say It Was Never Real.
I set my coffee cup down on the kitchen table carefully.
Then I read it: The marriage was a convenience arrangement, not a love story. Harper Bennett had been selected because she was manageable, not because Adrian Tao had any genuine interest in her. The engagement had been staged to satisfy a family obligation and the story the public had been sold was a construction from start to finish.
Someone who knew things about the Tao family had decided to come up with these, and had handed them over to a journalist, th
