“That remains under review.”
He signed.
Everly closed the folder and looked at the gold pen that had once hovered above a ruinous agreement.
The strangest part of that first night was no longer the gun, Marcus’s betrayal, or even Aaron knowing her name.
It was the moment before all of that, when she had seen five dangerous words and decided she would rather risk being heard than watch someone sign a lie.
For years, circumstance had reduced her world until she believed silence was the price of survival.
That night proved something different.
She had not lost the mind that once carried her into law school.
She had only stopped giving it a place to speak.
Now, when Everly Monroe entered a room full of powerful men and expensive contracts, nobody mistook her for invisible.
And nobody signed until she had finished reading.
