rom me to Mark, their pens poised, a scent of scandal in the air.

mask of steel, but his ey

aid, the pet name a weapon meant to belittl

kly, stepping closer to Mark as if to protect him. "T

ty and dismissal. They' d seen this before. The brilliant but unstab

rom a tabloid whispered to his colleague, loud eno

t was rage. In my past life, this humiliation would have crippled me. I would

he crowd, the condescending looks, they didn' t

ing directly at her. "And I am not throwing a ta

dropped the pretense of the concerne

in a low, dangerous voice that only I could hea

surprised even me. "I am officially severing all professional ties with OmniWell. M

ff like a string of firecrackers. Repor

es this mean for th

ell can' t produce the

onflict with y

ion had spiraled away from him. He looked at me, a silent, furio

d for, was gone. Or rather, he had never been there at all. I had just been in

them about the delays? Go ahead. Tell them why you think Alana Vance' s cheaper, less effective antiviral is a be

Alana gasped, look

outrageous accusat

the data. All of it. And as of ten minutes a

have no idea what you' re doing," he hissed, his charming facade completely go

back up into his eyes. I felt no fear. O

ulled my arm free from his grasp. "And

m, on Alana, on the chaos of the