Leah
For a moment, the entire boardroom was silent.
Every pair of eyes in the room moved between Ethan and me, trying to understand what they had just heard.
“Leah… Hayes?” one of the board members repeated slowly.
The name still felt unfamiliar even to me.
Across the table, Lucas was staring at me like he had just seen a ghost.
Rebecca, however, was the first to react.
“This is ridiculous,” she snapped, pushing her chair back slightly. “Ethan, what kind of joke is this?”
Ethan didn’t even look at her.
Instead, he calmly took a seat at the head of the table.
“It’s not a joke,” he said evenly.
Rebecca laughed sharply.
“Oh really? Because the last time I checked, she was my brother’s useless wife.”
Her words echoed through the room.
A few of the executives shifted uncomfortably
