Damien POV
I still couldn’t bring myself to believe Mr. Albert had leaked the project and betrayed me. If it were anyone else, I’d say the evidence was planted, that they’d been bribed or threatened. But this was Albert. The man who’d stood by me for years.
And yet… I’d seen the evidence myself. With Evelyn at my side. If I hadn’t been the one to find it, maybe I’d have doubted it. Maybe I’d have doubted her.
I skipped breakfast, my mind too restless to eat, and went straight to work. The board meeting later was already hanging over my head like a storm cloud.
“Call Mr. Albert to my office,” I told Colt the moment I arrived. He nodded and left. Evelyn walked in a second later, silent but watchful.
Soon after, the door opened and Mr. Albert stepped in, calm as ever. I gestured for him
