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Her eyes finally connected to mine. “I just don’t know what to say.”

“Don’t worry, baby; we’ll figure it out.” I checked my watch. “But we should head inside; the meeting is going to start in a few minutes.”

She followed me into the home office, where multiple monitors were set up on the large desk. I pulled another chair around, so we could sit beside each other, and I logged in to the network.

I held the mouse over the Connect button. “Are you ready?”

“I think so.” She slowly inhaled. “Yes.”

When the video turned on, I saw a boardroom, the same men as our prior meeting sitting around it, Shane there as well.

“Dominick, Miss Roy, thank you for joining us,” Ted said.

He then made the introductions, so Kendall knew the names of his team.

Details that made no goddamn difference because the result was still the same.

They had fucked up.

And now, they were going to pay.

“We would first like to offer our sincerest apologies,” Ted continued. “We understand that you must feel extremely viola