The first people to leave the company after Ethan's public statement were the longtime colleagues who had followed him for years.
Partners terminated their contracts one after another. Elders who had once respected him refused to see him and sent only a single message.
"You lost Claire because you chose to."
Tessa was prosecuted for taking and distributing intimate photographs, fabricating an emergency, and obstructing the investigation.
During questioning, she sat across the table from Ethan and demanded, "You chose me again and again. What gives you the right to blame everything on me now?"
Ethan looked exhausted.
"You'll answer for your actions. I won't run from mine either."
After losing control of the company, he returned to the apartment where we had lived when we first starte
