Chapter 40: Scandal in the Headlines
I came downstairs expecting the usual quiet of morning breakfast and found Victor waiting instead, several newspapers spread across the dining table, his expression grim before he'd even spoken.
"You should see this," he said.
I picked up the first paper, my stomach dropping as I read the headline. Chairman's Young Wife Grows Close to Handsome Surgeon. Another beside it read, Marriage Trouble? Mrs. Ashford Seen Laughing With Doctor Bennett. A third simply asked, Is the Billionaire Being Replaced?
Every article carried photographs, real ones, nothing fabricated. Gabriel smiling at me during rehearsal. Me laughing at something one of the interns had said. Adrian standing alone near the doorway, visibly separate from the world I'd slipped so easily bac
