The truth spread through Brynwood's upper circles faster than anyone could have imagined. A neighbor on the same floor had caught the whole ugly scene on video and anonymously posted it to a local gossip forum. That's what set it off.
Before anyone knew it, the story was the talk of Hartwell, with people whispering about how he had pushed away his own fiancée for his stepsister and had his funding pulled by Sterling Group in retaliation.
His former friends suddenly did a complete about-face. I started hearing remarks like, "I always thought there was something off about that Leah. What normal sister clings to her brother that way and tries on her brother's fiancée's wedding dress?" and "Arthur is such a loser, throwing away a high-powered finance executive just to play babysitter to a sc
