~Victor POV~
It’s been two weeks since the meeting with the mayor and to say that the stress level was at an all-time high was not giving it enough justice. Bella and her Rinascita internal team and my team have been working 14-hour days, weekends included. I will be honest, I have never felt such pressure to deliver before and yet there was nothing I could do physically to affect the finished outcome.
I couldn’t design, sew, maybe model, but Bella was not going to pinch hit me in, when I so graciously offered. All I could contribute was my money and connections and with the mayor’s campaign, they had more pull with that than I did. The campaign’s Super Pac would pay me back for all my expenses, so despite my hefty donation to the mayor’s campaign, there was not much I could do in contr
