Too Late for the Truth

~HADLEY~

I didn't let him settle even though I'd just asked him to explain why he wanted to see me.

"Why did you suddenly need to meet me?" I asked again, fingers wrapped around the water glass I still hadn't touched. "You spent weeks acting like I was a problem to manage or a rumor to disprove. Now you're flooding my phone like the building is on fire. What changed?"

Garrett sat forward in the bo