Chapter 7 — The Package

“It’s already on Twitter,” someone in the hallway murmured.

Phones came out all down the floor.

The video was circulating before my heart had finished registering what had happened to it — the falling roses, Adriana’s panic, the call confirming the eighty million.

I bent down and picked up the designer bag.

Adriana watched with a flicker of hope, foolish enough to think the gesture meant forgiveness.