My phone rang at two in the morning. Julian. The screen filled with missed calls, dozens of them, all from him.
My fingers were cold as I pressed answer.
His voice exploded through the line before I could speak. He sounded unhinged, frantic in a way I had never heard before.
"Was it you, Mia? Did you leak everything?"
The arrogance was gone. In its place, nothing but rage and panic.
I leaned against the lab's floor-to-ceiling window and kept my voice flat.
"It was me."
"Are you out of your mind?" My calmness seemed to push him even further over the edge. His voice came through clenched teeth, almost delirious. "Do you have any idea what you've done? My company's stock is in freefall. Every partnership, canceled. Chloe's reputation is destroyed. She has nothing left. Nothing. What do
