MADDISON'S POV
The silence and feeling of the hotel library had been a temporary shield and a break from the public shame which had been handed to her in the ballroom. The last words from Grant to her that night, the words that he had spoken while he was on the phone as his gaze burned into hers had echoed in the quiet that followed days after.
We have to review all this trash…this embarrassment. All of it. I don't care what it costs to do it
He had turned around to her when he'd gotten off the phone, his face a mask of hard anger and firm plan. His orders were short, in a low voice that simply did not allow for argument; Go home. Lock your door. Don't answer the call of numbers you don't know. And Maddison… don't watch the news. Trust me.
A car from the hotel's private garage had driv
