shouted.
“You needed the money,” Vanessa replied. “Without Northstar, how were you planning to pay Claire quickly enough to make her disappear?”
“You told me Titan was independent.”
“You wanted to believe it.”
“I trusted you.”
Vanessa laughed.
“No, Grant. You trusted the version of yourself you saw when you looked at me.”
She reminded him that for years he had complained the industry viewed me as Meridian’s real leader.
She praised his instincts, defended his shortcuts, and described my caution as an attempt to control him.
“You didn’t divorce
