Serena walked into the boardroom with a sharp, confident stride, her heels clicking against the polished marble floor.
The atmosphere inside was thick with tension, an unspoken heaviness hanging between the members seated at the long glass table.
She could already feel their eyes on her, some filled with skepticism, others with curiosity, and a few with outright disapproval.
She had known this meeting was coming the moment she stepped foot back in Los Angeles. The murmurs, the side glances, the way people in her own company avoided looking her directly in the eye—it all pointed to one thing.
Someone had been working against her, and from the way some of the board members sat stiffly with their papers neatly stacked before them, she already had a good idea who.
Still, she didn’t let
