Keira
I stared at Monica's email for a full minute before I could bring myself to actually respond, the words *Damien Cross, co-host, behind-the-scenes segments* refusing to rearrange themselves into anything less infuriating no matter how many times I reread them.
"This has to be a joke," I said, when the six of them plus Monica gathered for the emergency call twenty minutes later, all of us patched in from wherever we'd been when the news broke.
"It's not a joke," Monica said, her voice tight through the speaker. "Apparently the network felt his 'rivalry perspective' would add tension the storyline needed. His agent pitched it directly to the executives, bypassing our side of the negotiation entirely."
"We just spent a week fighting for basic privacy protections," Mason said, fury ba
