Chapter 6

I confronted him about it on a Tuesday. I meant to do it cold and professionally. I didn’t manage the cold.

“Your best friend is telling the whole city I’m a gold digger,” I said, the second his office door shut behind me. “That I left Evan for you. For your money. Sophia heard it from two different people. Two, Lucas. It’s already moving.”

My hands were shaking. I shoved them in my coat pockets so he wouldn’t see.

Lucas looked up from his desk, unhurried. “I heard.”

“You heard.” My voice climbed. “And you did nothing.”

“What would you…