“I recorded him.”
Victor took it before I could.
“Why bring this to Lexi?” he asked.
Sienna’s eyes filled with tears she refused to let fall.
“Because he found something.”
The room seemed to shrink.
“What?” I asked.
She whispered, “A child’s medical file.”
My breath left me.
Victor turned sharply toward me.
I had not told him.
I had not told anyone.
Not even Ronald.
Especially not Ronald.
Sienna’s voice trembled. “He thinks you had a child before him. He thinks you hid a daughter. He said he can use it to make you look unstable, like you abandoned someone.”
My knees weakened.
I gripped the back of the sofa.
No.
Not this.
Anything but this.
Sienna stepped closer, her voice breaking now.
“He called his mother. She said they could spin it. She said if the board thinks you’re emotionally compromised, maybe they can delay your control. I don’t know what that means. But he was happy. God, he was happy, Lexi.”
