Chapter 166

SIENNA

The boardroom was still trembling with the echoes of applause when Gideon was swept up by a tide of stakeholders. Hands reached for him, voices overlapping, congratulations pouring in like a flood he endured with the same composure he wielded in war. Papers were thrust at him, questions murmured, promises whispered.

I stayed tucked by his side at first, but his world was suddenly swarmi