Chapter 6

Lily and I would never forgive him.

I was just about to rip into them and prove Lily's innocence when a male voice shattered the suffocating tension.

"Nobody copied anything. I can prove it."

A tall, broad-shouldered man pushed through the crowd.

"Ethan!" Lily recognized him instantly.

Ethan Cole was my high school friend. Back then, he was on a scholarship, scraping by to finish high school and college. I had secretly helped fund his tuition. When he found out, he promised he would pay me back one day.

After graduation, he built his own company from the ground up.…