Chapter 11By the time they landed back in the US, Ted’s phone was blowing up with MAC Superior management and board members “concerned” about these supposed pictures of Ryan “cheating on him” with a woman in Las Vegas. Dana’s was the only mildly interesting one, since it said: They want to believe you. Implying that she would help him if Bob and the rest of the board needed convincing, he assumed. Ted ignored them all for the moment, except for the one from Amaya Stanhope, Director of Pricing, that simply said: Are you okay?
At Ryan’s urging, Ted called her and told her what had happened, trying and failing to leave out his personal wish to strangle his little brother. Amaya didn’t sound surprised—and said no one else at MAC would be either. The pictures had shown up on a board email chai
