The next morning, the tension from the previous night hadn’t eased—if anything, it had taken on a sharper edge.
David sat behind his desk in the office, one hand resting on his temple while the other flipped through a stack of reports. He wasn’t really reading them; his eyes skimmed over the numbers, but his mind was elsewhere. The divorce rumors had spread faster than wildfire, and Marina’s public humiliation had only made things worse. News outlets were already stringing the two events together, speculating about his marriage falling apart and whispering about the scandal surrounding him and Marina.
And the stock prices were paying the price for it.
The latest report from the PR department was sitting right in front of him page after page of headlines, screenshots, and social
