Damian's POV

The silence of my office felt like a balm after the night before. I was sitting in front of my monitor, reading a report from the legal department and making notes on what Stella needed to revise, when my phone vibrated beside the keyboard.

[Lizzy: Okay… maybe I should've warned you first, but it was for a good cause. They would've pushed a lot harder if you hadn't agreed to the dinner. Now you've bought yourself time. Just show up, look like you're trying, then dump Peterson. E