Chapter 36 Chapter Thirty Six

• The flash of cameras lit up the entire school entrance like it was a red carpet event. I could already see the headlines writing themselves in their heads—Mysterious CEO Steps In As Xavier Roth Falls From Grace. The paparazzi didn’t even know the full story yet. But they would have.
• They always did.
• I didn’t move at first. I sat quietly in the passenger seat, hands clasped together as I stared through the tinted glass, watching them swarm like vultures waiting for a corpse to stop twitching.