Ex-husband, Step Aside
Harper foundation—The New Era of Innovation.
That slogan used to be mine, or something close enough.
“She took everything,” I whisper to the empty room. “My clients, my people, my light.”
The silence answers back, heavy and cruel.
The door opens behind me. I don’t turn. Her perfume reaches first—familiar, expensive, dangerous.
“Adrian,” Mia says softly, “you’re still here.”
Her voice is the one thing that can still find me through the noise. I glance over my shoulder. She stands by the doorway in her black coat, hair falling to one side.