Chapter 16 A Public Secret

(Ethan's POV)

I'd always believed reputation was everything.

Now, I wasn't so sure.

For the last two weeks, I'd moved through the office like a shadow - present, but distracted. Meetings blurred into background noise, numbers lost their sharpness, and even the sound of Sade's voice had started to fade behind the low murmur of gossip that had begu