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Color stained her cheeks, criainst the pale white of her skin “No It’s a common expression”

“And it’s also in the front jacket of the book My rise to success fro If you like a fairy tale”

It was al with the rest of the world, had jumped at the chance to read about his sordid past And it was sordid, nofor him, the book only scratched the surface Sure there hispers, whispers that were close to the truth, but no one really knew

“I have no idea what book you’re talking about”

“I think you do, but you can have your lie”

She was all but bouncing in place now, her knee flexing in ti in her head Probably the horrible na him “Fine I read it Know your enemy and all The Art of War See? I’m on top of stuff”

“It’s like your ot you a CEO boxed set for Christarden?”

“Make your point, or I walk,” she bit out

“My point is that you’ve had success easy and young” She bit her lip, like she was holding back words she wanted desperately to speak Words that would be designed to castrate him, of that he had no doubt “Because of that success, you’ve never had to deal with the realities of setbacks Of how business works Of the nuances of it You didn’t have to court the press, they came to you You haven’t had to turn scandal around and e Haven’t had to twist lies around so that they’re close enough to the truth no one will exa with here I know the manner of man Scott Hamlin really is, and I won’t hesitate to take him out completely”

“You say that like I don’t know that manner of man,” she said, her tone frosty “I’m a woman in a man’s world Tech is a boys’ club, Calvaresi There’s practically a No Girls Allowed sign on the door I’ve been dealing with men all my life ant to take from me, who think they can just take froht He deserves nothing less than total professional destruction”

“He would do nothing less to us He’s tried to, or didn’t you know?”

“What?”

“You look shocked”

“I a to me”

“You think not? Well, he’s the man who’s seventy percent responsible for my unauthorized bio, which you are fa all of your returns last year”

“How did you know about that?”