The Baby Blindside by Layla Valentine & Ana Sparks

Author:Layla Valentine & Ana Sparks [Valentine, Layla & Sparks, Ana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Heidi

Heidi drove straight to Annie’s, where her friend immediately saw the red in her eyes and pulled her into a hug. Heidi sobbed into the woman’s shoulder, comforted by the kind affection. Slowly, she broke the hug, explaining that she had business to handle. Annie nodded, and indicated that Heidi’s usual seat was open. Grateful, Heidi slunk off into the corner and curled up in her armchair.

Despite the meltdown, she’d had the presence of mind on her flight from Todd’s office to stop at Bradley’s car and ask the driver to hand over her luggage. It would save her the awkward run-in down the line, of course, but for the moment, she was mostly grateful to have her laptop. She opened the device and waited for it to load up as Annie walked over with a cup of hot chocolate—Orlando weather be damned—and a brownie.

“Thanks,” Heidi mumbled, smiling sadly at her friend.

“Anytime, hon. You holler if you need anything.”

Once Annie had bustled through into the back room, Heidi began to dig through the web. While she was still upset, internet prowling was her specialty; in this day and age, you didn’t get to be a PR person without knowing your way around cyber profile stalking. The familiar action soothed her—it felt nice to be doing something she knew she was good at it.

Slowly, after a few hours of work—with some spent sifting through content retrieval sites and following source links at the bottom of blog posts—Heidi had begun to piece together the puzzle. But she wasn’t sure yet, and she’d need final confirmation. There was only one person who could help.

She took her phone out of her purse and dialed her best friend at Image-ine, Meredith. They hadn’t texted while Heidi had been at Edenix, but hopefully, their relationship could withstand a few weeks of distance—not to mention Heidi’s newfound reputation as America’s favorite villain.

Meredith picked up the phone on the third ring.

“Heidi?” she asked. “Is that you?”

“Yeah, Mere. It’s nice to hear your voice.”

“Oh Heidi, I’m so sorry about everything. You didn’t deserve this.”

“Thanks. It does kinda suck being hated by the whole country.”

“No—well, sorry, yes, of course, that’s true—but I mean what Image-ine did. Just awful.”

This was exactly what Heidi had been looking for.

She replied, “What did Image-ine do, exactly?”

On the other end, Meredith sighed, and launched into a story.

“So, on the day you left, Gary sent orders throughout the office, up and down the chain of command. We were all supposed to burn you, whenever we could and by whatever means necessary. You were, in his words, ‘an ungrateful bitch’ who deserved to watch her career die a painful death.”

Heidi had, in some ways, known to expect it. Gary was a tool. And while he had apparently made it seem like taking her down was business-motivated, she instinctively understood that it was personal. Gary was going to make her pay for embarrassing him in front of the entire office. He just needed a good excuse.

Meredith continued.

“I know I don’t need to tell you this, but just to be clear, almost everyone was on your side.

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