Chapter 7

Sophia's shoulders shook when she heard it. She looked up at Andrew with tears in her eyes, and she didn't say a word.

Whenever things got hard, she knew exactly how to make herself the most pitiful person in the room.

I closed the folder. "Just as well. The project's dead."

Andrew marched right up to me. "Do you even know how long she's been hustling for this? After the Grant family went under, this brand was all she had left. If she can't land Clearwater Estate, she won't even have a shot at getting back on her feet."

"So…