Maddison's POV
The headline was plain, cruel, and totally destructive.
HARRISON ENTERPRISES PARTY DIRTIED BY SCANDAL: CEO CAUGHT UP IN WRONG PHOTOS WITH JUNIOR EMPLOYEE. STOCK PRICES DROP.
The words on her phone screen were computer proof of her ruin. STOCK PRICES DROP. It was not a fuzzy idea. It was a number, a bright red, pointing-down arrow next to the Harrison Enterprises stock ticker. It was the real, measurable value of Grant's entire empire, disappearing in real-time because of a lie with her face on it. The phone was so heavy in her hand like a tiny black gravestone atop the grave of her own career, before it even really began. Dizziness hit her, so bad she stumbled while in the ballroom, the ugliness of the sea of faces and blue ghosts of their phones faded into a gray blurry
