“She will be too embarrassed.”
“The evaluation?”
“Ready.”
“The board?”
“They’ll see a husband trying to protect his company.”
“And if she appears?”
Julian straightened his cuff.
“She won’t.”
At 5:15, I wrote a time on the board packet.
10:17 p.m.
Arthur looked at it.
“That gives us forty-two minutes before the board vote.”
“Correct.”
“Remove Julian from the ballroom?”
“No.”
“Victoria?”
“No.”
“What do you want?”