my notebook.
“The only thing Meridian permanently lost today was a chief executive who believed he was more important than the truth.”
His face turned gray.
“Did I ever matter to you?”
“You mattered enough for me to spend seven years absorbing the consequences of your arrogance.”
I paused.
“Never again.”
The wedding was canceled the next morning.
Photographers captured Vanessa leaving the hotel through a service entrance while workers removed hundreds of white flowers.
She did not cry.
Her first move was filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit against Meridian, claiming
