Dressed to Provoke

Cora's POV

This was all Lexi’s fault.

If she hadn’t spent hours curling my hair into perfect waves, if she hadn’t contoured my face like I was walking a runway, I wouldn’t be late, walking into this boardroom like a disaster, drawing every eye.

I’d lied about the emergency. Words tumbled out before I could stop them, some nonsense about a family crisis that didn’t exist. What else could I say? Sor