7
Pre-Revelations
Of course Jared’s revelation occurred just before the waiter peeked back in. We gave him our orders so he’d leave us alone for a while. After topping off our wine, he disappeared.
The irony of a pharmaceutical drug company CEO coming down with some sort of mysterious ailment wasn’t lost on me, but I had no reason to be a b***h right now. He trusted me enough to reveal something sensitive—and, boy, did I know how worrisome this sort of thing could be. But he had a host of underlings to help cover up whatever was wrong with him. I had been running my agency on my own with just an admin, and even she had disappeared once my illness became full-blown and my brain took longer to recover from the changes.
Then I had been a b***h in every sense of the word.
“What’s wrong?”
