Chapter 39 · What He Didn't Say

"Say it in there and Corazon eats you alive." Jae Min's hand was flat against the boardroom door before I could push it open. "Say it, and they don't hear a witness. They hear a maid who bugged a private call."

"I didn't bug anything." My voice came out steadier than I felt. "I was cleaning the suite. You're the one who forgot to close the connecting door."

"Doesn't matter how it happened." He leaned in, close enough that I caught the cedar off his collar, close enough that the hallway light cut hard across his jaw.

"It matters how Grant spins it. You tell that board I sold ahead of the vote in Korean so nobody in the room would catch it, and Whitfield stands up smiling and says the housekeeper's lying because she's angry I fired her. He already has the line ready. I've heard him practice it in the elevator, Lila. He likes the sound of his own voice too much to keep it to himself."

"So I say nothing and you get away with it.