ext, a single line: "Coffee at

attempt at reconciliation, a com

nore

and things over to Mark, my direct manager. He was a decent guy, al

ved, Mark l

s. About the Senior Mar

d was the prerequisite for our relationship ever becoming public. "Once y

said, a hollow feeling in my stomach. It didn

essica pushed it through. I argued, Sarah, I told them you w

offering him a small smile.

m my resign

his eyes wide with surprise

," I said. "It's

xicity, the way Jessica undermined me, the

ith Alex, a brief, almost forgotte

the only woman in the world. We'd had stolen mo

his ambition, his emotional unavailabilit

to him, her ruthlessness

him about it, about us, about t

his phone, on his next billion-dollar deal. "Je

r schedule, her needs. I was

tionship, it was all a lie, a

of my life, my career, stunted, all for a man

air. I excused myself an