She found out on Saturday morning.
Not from Darian. Not from Imara. From a Google alert she had set up three years ago on the Ashford Group name as a professional habit and had largely forgotten about until her phone lit up at seven forty two with a notification that made her sit up in bed and read the screen twice before she believed what she was reading.
EXCLUSIVE: Ashford Group CEO Darian Ashford's Secret Child Revealed Mother is Senior Strategist on His Own Integration Team
She clicked the link.
The article was on a financial gossip site she had never heard of the kind that existed in the space between legitimate business journalism and outright tabloid, credible enough to be taken seriously and irresponsible enough to print things that responsible outlets wouldn't touch.
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