Chapter 87 - Chapter 87 – Letters Interrupted

The notification light on Caro's office phone had been blinking for nearly twenty minutes before she finally silenced it with visible irritation, but the pressure inside her chest refused to quiet with it. Outside her glass office walls, Blackridge still moved through the aftermath of the disastrous board meeting in tense, controlled waves. Executives crossed corridors carrying revised financial packets while assistants whispered urgently beside elevators already overloaded with internal damage control. Yet none of that held her attention now. Peter's expression from the conference room kept replaying relentlessly inside her head, especially the moment suspicion settled visibly behind his eyes. Not anger. Not disappointment. Something colder. Something careful. And somehow that frightened her more than open confrontation ever could have.