GEORGIA
The moment the heavy steel doors slid shut, sealing me away from his piercing gaze, the cold and impenetrable expression I had been wearing inside that boardroom violently vanished.
I collapsed back against the mirrored wall of the elevator, my chest heaving as my heart hammered a frantic, terrifying rhythm against my ribs.
I had been utterly and completely blindsided, thrown into a living nightmare without a single second of warning.
When my executive team set up the pitch meetings for my new clothing line, the corporate shell companies had completely obscured the true identity of the buyer. That was the real reason I had shut the presentation down so ruthlessly. I had genuinely walked into that room having absolutely no idea that Chestnut Corporation was the entity sitting ac
