Taylor leaned back against the stiff leather of his office chair, staring blankly at the spreadsheets sprawled across his desk.
The numbers blurred together, meaningless. The ringing phone, the hum of computers, and the muffled voices of his colleagues had become white noise to him.
Nothing held his focus anymore. His mind was a battlefield, and Nicole stood victorious at every turn.
The humiliation of losing the Griffins Industries contract earlier that week gnawed at his pride.
It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. He’d been confident, prepared or so he thought. But Nicole had turned the tables, leaving him stranded in a room full of executives with no answers to their biting questions.
To add to his pains and frustration, the news of things he thought was buried flashed through
