"Yarden, aren't you mistaken? Shouldn't the one feeling moved and grateful right now be Callum?"

Noelle deliberately raised her injured hand, her smile unsettling. "Faye fell right into the other party's trap. She didn’t know how to turn the situation around and just ran off in tears! Even her second-round negotiation proposal was a copy-paste job—seems like she’s finally mastered the art of abusing Google Scholar!"

As for Noelle, who had to clean up Faye’s ...