How Far She's Come by Holly Brown

Author:Holly Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

For once, Edwin’s not drinking. He’s also frowning. “Albie says you were struggling a lot this weekend. He’s not sure you’re emotionally ready for this.” Am I imagining the disdain when he says “emotionally”?

I don’t know if he’s questioning my readiness for this particular story or for INN. But in either event, he might be right. I might not have the stomach for this. “Maybe we should postpone.”

“You don’t postpone a story like this. If we don’t cover it now, we could get scooped.”

“No other network would have the balls to touch it, right?”

“You need to get your head in the game.”

“It was a rough weekend. Chase showed up—”

“I know.” Even more pronounced disdain.

“I don’t want to let you down, so if you want to give the story to someone else, like if Ty can read it off the teleprompter—”

“Don’t tell me how to run my network, Cheyenne!” Edwin snaps as he strides around the office. “This was supposed to be yours. You were supposed to rise to the occasion.”

If he’s been planning this all along, that explains why my process has been so rushed. I’m being asked to throw away a relationship with the only man I’ve ever loved. I don’t think I love him anymore, but Edwin doesn’t know that. Or he does. He seems to know everything else.

Maybe Chase is really a good guy, like I always used to think, and I’ve been focusing on all his worst traits and on the negatives in our relationship. It’s possible that I’m spinning our past and who he is, putting it all in the most dire light, so that I can sacrifice him to my ambition. To Edwin’s ambition.

Now I’m mad too. “I was supposed to rise to the occasion of cutting my boyfriend’s head off?”

“The head of the snake, you mean?”

The head? I’ve been focusing on what Chase knew, not on what he’s done. What he may have initiated.

“Chase is high level at Until. I have it on good authority that he’s been instrumental in designing Until’s strategy. He’s your unicorn, right?”

Before I shut down all my social media, there was an Instagram post: a picture of Chase with the caption “My unicorn.” Is Edwin actually jealous?

He softens his tone. “We both know what you need to do, Cheyenne. In your heart, you know. And deep down, you want him to pay. For keeping you in the dark, for not being who he pretends to be. If you let him get away with it, Until could damage this entire country. You’re a patriot. That’s what I love about you.”

I sink down on the couch. “I need to know something. An investigation this extensive takes a while. Is it part of why you chose me—because having me take down my boyfriend would be something you couldn’t see on CNN or MSNBC?” It would be pure INN. Pure theater.

“It was a story we were pursuing. I didn’t know if it would pan out. But it did, and now we’re all agreed that it’s the best possible direction for you.

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