Chapter Eighteen
The press release went out Wednesday morning — three carefully worded paragraphs Rafael’s communications team had spent two full days drafting and redrafting, trying to land somewhere between honest and defensible.
Knox Aurelius Group CEO Rafael Knox confirms his marriage to interior architect Amara Quinn, founder of Quinn & Co. The couple share a son. The family requests privacy during this transition.
It took eleven minutes for the first headline to hit.
BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET SON: Knox CEO Marries Mystery Woman After Five-Year Cover-Up
Amara read it standing in the kitchen, coffee going cold in her hand, scrolling through her phone with a growing sense of unreality that made the words blur together by the third or fourth headline.
“They are calling it a cover-up,” s
