~Narrator’s~

“You’re cancelling everything?” Blair’s voice is sharp. She’s wearing a navy suit with silver pins and stilettos that don’t dare click too loud on Reo’s custom floors. “Reo…this is the third time.”

Reo doesn’t look up from the planner in front of him. His fingers tighten around the pen, but he doesn’t stop crossing lines through each appointment. One by one. Monday. Tuesday. The Pledge fundraiser. Marcus Lane’s quarterly audit. The Mothers in the Workforce press conference.

All of it—cancelled.

“Yes,” he says. That’s all.

Blair exhales. It’s not frustrated exactly. It’s more... unsettled. “You know investors already think you’ve lost control of your public image. They think Jennie’s...