If Dave hadn’t gone public with their relationship at the last press conference, those companies wouldn’t just be delaying things. They would have cut ties with her agency completely.

And if that happened, even the five hundred million she raised by pawning the red diamond wouldn’t save the agency. Business would dry up, and the agency would collapse with no way to recover.

Bianca couldn’t understand why Reece would betray her so cruelly. The attacks just kept coming, and it felt like ...