Chapter 64

Mila's wine-soaked clothes clung to her like ice. Cornelius seemed to still be saying something to her, but she couldn't hear any of it. In her mind's eye, the surrounding clamor and Matteo's departing figure began to blur into a bleak, gray haze. She had done all this for the sake of the bigger picture, for the sake of minimizing the incident's impact on the company, and for the sake of protecting Penelope's innocence and maintaining Royal Investment's partnership with Starbright Holdings… She'd even considered Cornelius' feelings, but she'd forgotten to think about her own self and what she would later do in this sorry state. Even the publicly embarrassed Cornelius now looked at her with a hint of pity and sympathy in his eyes. "Are you really planning to resign, Ms. Wright?" he asked, feigning concern. She didn't answer, wiping the wine from her face silently with a piece of tissue paper. "If you're really quitting, you can come to Starbright. I'll take you in." "If I com