My husband took me to his company’s gala and, in front of the director, introduced me as “the nanny” so no one would know he was married to me…

learning how to move through that world without announcing myself, how to rebuild what was broken without needing recognition for it, because recognition, I had learned, is often the least valuable part of power.

Zenith Group had been one of those opportunities.

Struggling, mismanaged, overlooked.

Until it wasn’t.

Julian, of course, knew none of that.

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